Atwater, California

Atwater population, 2020 to 2024

Atwater added 309 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +43. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 127th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Atwater is 87% of it.

Atwater covers 6.57 square miles of land, for 4,908 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Atwater is denser than the typical town.

What county Atwater is in

All of Atwater's residents live in Merced County, which had 296,774 residents in 2024. Atwater holds 10.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Atwater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Atwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95301. 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 Atwater is

The Census internal point of Atwater is at 37.354000, -120.597200. Sacramento, the capital, is 97.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Merced, CA (96,073 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Modesto, CA, 29.6 miles away.

Daylight in Atwater

At 37.35° N, Atwater gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Atwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Merced, 7.4 miles away, with 96,073 people.