Avenal, California

Avenal population, 2020 to 2024

Avenal added 650 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.8%. In the latest year it moved by +14. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Avenal is 38% of it.

Avenal covers 19.48 square miles of land, for 724 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Avenal is less dense than the typical town.

What county Avenal is in

All of Avenal's residents live in Kings County, which had 154,913 residents in 2024. Avenal holds 9.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Avenal

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Avenal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93204, 93239. 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 Avenal is

The Census internal point of Avenal is at 36.031100, -120.116200. Sacramento, the capital, is 191.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Coalinga, CA (16,722 people), 14.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Visalia, CA, 48.5 miles away.

Daylight in Avenal

At 36.03° N, Avenal gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Avenal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Huron, 12.0 miles away, with 6,737 people.