Bell Gardens, California

Bell Gardens population, 2020 to 2024

Bell Gardens lost 1,818 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.6%. In the latest year it moved by -123. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 399th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Bell Gardens is 1.0 times that size.

Bell Gardens covers 2.46 square miles of land, for 15,270 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Bell Gardens is denser than the typical town.

What county Bell Gardens is in

All of Bell Gardens's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Bell Gardens holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bell Gardens

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bell Gardens by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90201. 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 Bell Gardens is

The Census internal point of Bell Gardens is at 33.964400, -118.154400. Sacramento, the capital, is 369.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Downey, CA (109,368 people), 2.2 miles away.

Daylight in Bell Gardens

At 33.96° N, Bell Gardens gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bell Gardens

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Cudahy, 1.6 miles away, with 21,694 people.