Auburn, California

Auburn population, 2020 to 2024

Auburn lost 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +77. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 165th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Auburn is 37% of it.

Auburn covers 7.18 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,919 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Auburn is less dense than the typical town.

What county Auburn is in

All of Auburn's residents live in Placer County, which had 433,822 residents in 2024. Auburn holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Auburn

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Auburn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95603. 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 Auburn is

The Census internal point of Auburn is at 38.895100, -121.076700. Sacramento, the capital, is 31.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rocklin, CA (75,129 people), 11.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Roseville, CA, 15.7 miles away.

Daylight in Auburn

At 38.90° N, Auburn gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Auburn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Loomis, 8.7 miles away, with 6,939 people.