Anderson, California

Anderson population, 2020 to 2024

Anderson lost 154 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -23. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 239th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Anderson is 30% of it.

Anderson covers 7.03 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 1,589 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Anderson is less dense than the typical town.

What county Anderson is in

All of Anderson's residents live in Shasta County, which had 181,121 residents in 2024. Anderson holds 6.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Anderson

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Anderson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 96007. 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 Anderson is

The Census internal point of Anderson is at 40.449800, -122.295100. Sacramento, the capital, is 136.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Redding, CA (93,502 people), 9.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chico, CA, 54.0 miles away.

Daylight in Anderson

At 40.45° N, Anderson gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Anderson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Redding, 9.1 miles away, with 93,502 people.