Question: what is the population of fayetteville north carolina?
Answer: 204,408 in 2013

Fayetteville has received the All - America City Award from the National Civic League three times . As of the 2010 census it had a population of 200,564 , with an estimated population of 204,408 in 2013 . It is the 6th - largest city in North Carolina . Fayetteville is in the Sandhills in the western part of the Coastal Plain region , on the Cape Fear River .