Alameda, California

Alameda population, 2020 to 2024

Alameda added 678 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +2,004. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 132nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Alameda is 2.1 times that size.

Alameda covers 10.40 square miles of land and 12.58 of water, for 7,576 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Alameda is denser than the typical town.

What county Alameda is in

All of Alameda's residents live in Alameda County, which had 1,649,060 residents in 2024. Alameda holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alameda

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Alameda by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94501, 94502. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alameda is

The Census internal point of Alameda is at 37.741900, -122.259900. Sacramento, the capital, is 71.1 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakland, CA (443,554 people), 2.7 miles away.

Daylight in Alameda

At 37.74° N, Alameda gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alameda

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Oakland, 2.7 miles away, with 443,554 people.