Berkeley, California

Berkeley population, 2020 to 2024

Berkeley lost 2,470 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,429. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 276th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Berkeley is 3.3 times that size.

Berkeley covers 10.43 square miles of land and 7.23 of water, for 11,673 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Berkeley is denser than the typical town.

What county Berkeley is in

All of Berkeley's residents live in Alameda County, which had 1,649,060 residents in 2024. Berkeley holds 7.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Berkeley

9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Berkeley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94702, 94703, 94704, 94705, 94707, 94708, 94709, 94710, 94720. 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 Berkeley is

The Census internal point of Berkeley is at 37.865700, -122.298700. Sacramento, the capital, is 65.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakland, CA (443,554 people), 7.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Richmond, CA, 6.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Berkeley

At 37.87° N, Berkeley gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Berkeley daylight page.

Places near Berkeley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Emeryville, 1.9 miles away, with 13,912 people.