Benicia, California

Benicia population, 2020 to 2024

Benicia lost 630 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by -27. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 296th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Benicia is 71% of it.

Benicia covers 12.81 square miles of land and 1.31 of water, for 2,067 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Benicia is less dense than the typical town.

What county Benicia is in

All of Benicia's residents live in Solano County, which had 455,101 residents in 2024. Benicia holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Benicia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Benicia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94510. 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 Benicia is

The Census internal point of Benicia is at 38.072700, -122.155200. Sacramento, the capital, is 50.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Martinez, CA (37,006 people), 5.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Vallejo, CA, 6.3 miles away.

Daylight in Benicia

At 38.07° N, Benicia gets about 14 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Benicia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Martinez, 5.6 miles away, with 37,006 people.