Barstow, California

Barstow population, 2020 to 2024

Barstow lost 514 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -42. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 280th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Barstow is 67% of it.

Barstow covers 41.30 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 603 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Barstow is less dense than the typical town.

What county Barstow is in

All of Barstow's residents live in San Bernardino County, which had 2,214,281 residents in 2024. Barstow holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Barstow

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Barstow by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92311. 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 Barstow is

The Census internal point of Barstow is at 34.867000, -117.043000. Sacramento, the capital, is 355.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Apple Valley, CA (75,029 people), 24.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Victorville, CA, 29.3 miles away.

Daylight in Barstow

At 34.87° N, Barstow gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Barstow

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Apple Valley, 24.9 miles away, with 75,029 people.