Statistics

Plot of Malton's populations, December 2005 to April 2020.
The Y axes show various population categories. Active characters are those that haven't idled out after five days. All below are subsets of active characters. Dead bodies include dead survivors and zombies, but not revivifying corpses. The zombie hunter count does not include hunters who are currently zombies themselves.

Data from Urban Dead statistics, April 2017 to current day. Older data from the Wayback Machine was collected manually.

Game statistics 2005 - 2025

This table shows the earliest available and final game stats that were recorded by the Wayback Machine.

	October 30th 2005	March 14th 2025
Active Characters	48,992	7,893
Standing Survivors	29,780 (60%)	3,840 (63%)
Standing Zombies	19,212 (40%)	2,247 (37%)
Dead Bodies	17,850	1,581
Revivifying Bodies	2,546	225
	(29/3/06)
Standing Zombie Hunters	8,669	2,088
Christmas Trees	43	29
	(05/03/07)
Players active in the last day	28,235	4,693
Players active in the last hour	2,367	1,196
Total players in game history	276,189	2,395,395
	(24/11/05)
Total groups with more than 10	153	1,136
members in game history	(24/11/05)
Mobile Network Coverage	68%	27%
	(05/12/05)

Other graphs

For graphs focusing on survivor and zombie population dynamics, see Survivor-Zombie Imbalance. An older version of the above graph is shown below. As well, the total population trend (outside of the scope of game imbalance) is also shown.

Old plot of Malton's populations, November 2005 to May 2011.
Data before April 22, 2007 is from before logs began. This is shown by a darker line, up to April 22, 2007 when data begins to be gathered hourly. A lighter plot is used for these values.

The Standing Hunter count starts late as it included the count of zombies possessing the skill before that date, so it isn't comparable with the current method; the first graph on this page nevertheless includes this earlier data from 2005. The count of dead and revivifying bodies start late as they was not separately tracked until that date.

Notable Events Players go On Strike during Stanstock, a zombie boost later results in the form of feeding groan. Some statistics undergo minor redefinitions on the stats page. Syringe Nerf. It now takes 10AP to use a syringe, up from 1AP. A zombie boost sees several new zombie skills. Another zombie boost along with other changes, resulting in more new skills. Official logging starts, stats page data is now captured every hour. Yahoomas occurs. An article about the game appears on Yahoo, resulting in a surge of new players. An update alters free running mechanics, and ruins now disrupt movement in the network. Zombies are boosted and now provide interference against barricading attempts, as well as other boons. The Dead make an appearance in Malton, and make a big impact on survivor and zombie numbers. Monroeville is locked down, and players return to Malton alts. Monroeville reopens for a brief period, and many Malton survivor characters idle out. Borehamwood opens, drawing players away from their Malton alts once again. Search rates are rumoured to be increased. Game update introducing survivor safehouses and zombie bellow. The Dead 2.0 return with another organized campaign of destruction throughout Malton. Dynamic search rates reach absurdly high levels with the high player imbalance. An automated sign up script creates 1500 throw-away survivor accounts.

Total population of Malton, December 2005 to April 2020.
The steepness of the line corresponds to how many people signed up over a given time period. Events are labeled next to a dotted vertical line. Although Monroeville and Borehamwood statistics are not included on this graph, they are notable game events that attracted players to the game.

An older version of this graph is available here.

Notable Events Chronologically, from left to right: Syringe Nerf. Yahoomas. The March of The Dead. Monroeville opens. Borehamwood opens. The Second March of The Dead. Spike in zerging using new survivor character signups. Unexplained uptick. An influx of total characters signal new creations, yet are ghosts: the active character numbers remain stable, as do other numbers on the stats page. Spike in zerging using new zombie character signups.

Group Statistics

Data about the number of members of individual game groups can be found on the Group Statistics page. As with the population data, the group statistics were manually gathered from the Wayback Machine. Group and population data for the game is not backed up by the game server and is lost every time it is updated, so a great amount of population and group data has been lost.

The official statistics page only lists groups with 10 or more active members, i.e players who performed an action in the last 5 days. According to the data saved by the WBM there have been 1,136 groups that have had at least 10 members at one point in time. Many of these were short lived groups but there are several groups which have continued to play since the game began in 2005. This figure must be close to the true number of total groups because this wiki has 1,542 group related pages.

The Ridleybank Resistance Front (RRF) is the only group which has never fallen below 10 active members, making it the oldest group in the game.

The Dead hold the record for largest amount of members on a single date, 1,751 members on 1/5/2011. According to the server manager The Dead have a total group size of 7,266 if you take into account inactive players, a statistic that cannot be seen by regular players.

The top 9 groups with the highest average membership from 2005 to 2022.

The group averages and max members of every group recorded by the WBM can be found at Group Averages 2005 to 2025.

The number of groups with at least 10 members from 2005 to 2025

When the game shut down in March 2025, there was a brief resurgence in the playerbase, with 7,893 characters active, compared the preceding norm of about 4,000. Group membership at this late hour was as follows:

Group	Known Members	Average Level	Rating
Ridleybank Resistance Front	99	41	4134
The Dead	101	38	3883
Alpha Dogs	65	45	2961
Knights Templar	54	34	1873
The Malton Zookeepers	49	32	1575
The Malton Globetrotters	27	42	1148
Creedy Defense Force	24	40	976
Zombot Queen	22	43	946
Babble Rabble	24	38	929
Dual Nature	24	37	889
The Fortress	22	39	876
Perfect Ballerinas	20	43	861
The Scourge	20	40	802
Militant Order of Barhah	24	33	798
The Flowers of Decay	19	41	780
Combat Revive Squad	20	38	777
The Randoms	18	42	759
Soldiers of Crossman	18	40	735
Fort Perryn Defense Force	19	37	719
The Burchell Arms Regulars	19	36	699
Brain Curators	16	38	622
THEM	15	40	612
LUE	16	35	569
ZombieFark	13	42	546
Fort Feral Zombies	13	41	540
Philosophe Knights	14	37	527
BOW	15	33	497
McCloud's Pub	12	40	483
Feral Undead	12	40	483
UD Fark	11	43	476
Dunell Hills Police Department	11	43	474
Squadron1111	12	38	458
Tikhon Medical	11	39	433
Quartly Study Group	11	37	411
South Paynterton Aces	11	34	384
Malton College of Medicine	10	37	378
GHOST	10	37	377
SG-1	10	31	311

Suburb History

Snapshots of the suburb dangermap can be seen at Category:Suburb History. An animated gif showcasing these images can be seen here.

Sources

• Game Statistics Page
• Game Statistics Log for comprehensive data post April 22, 2007
• Wayback Machine for sporadic data pre April 22, 2007
• Statistics/Data for a list of some manually recovered statistics, roughly every week for most of 2006.