There are 435 members of the House. Each state gets a guarantee of one member, thus leaving 385 seats remaining. Those remaining seats (members) are apportioned (divided up) among the states based on population.
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The House of Representatives was created so that each state could have apportioned representation. The Senate has a set 100 members, 2 for each state. The House of Representatives has a certain number of members for each state depending on the population. Smaller states has a minimum of 3.
House of Representative members are apportioned based on a state's population. The larger the population the more representatives. California currently has the most representatives with 53 members.
There are 435 members in the House of Representatives.
In the US, the House of Representatives are elected by the voters in their respective states. The number of Representatives a state may have is based on population. Some states have such a low level of population, they have only one member in the House of Representatives. As a consequence of the US Constitution, some low population states have two senators and one House member. This is quite unusual, and normally the reverse is true.
There is 435 representatives in the house.