Alhambra, California

Alhambra population, 2020 to 2024

Alhambra lost 2,371 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +35. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 322nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Alhambra is 2.2 times that size.

Alhambra covers 7.63 square miles of land, for 10,521 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Alhambra is denser than the typical town.

What county Alhambra is in

All of Alhambra's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Alhambra holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alhambra

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Alhambra by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 91801, 91803. 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 Alhambra is

The Census internal point of Alhambra is at 34.083600, -118.136400. Sacramento, the capital, is 362.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pasadena, CA (137,195 people), 5.3 miles away.

Daylight in Alhambra

At 34.08° N, Alhambra gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alhambra

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is South Pasadena, 2.1 miles away, with 25,656 people.