Blue Lake, California

Blue Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Blue Lake lost 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.3%. In the latest year it moved by -16.

Blue Lake covers 0.62 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,869 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Blue Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Blue Lake is in

All of Blue Lake's residents live in Humboldt County, which had 132,380 residents in 2024. Blue Lake holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blue Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blue Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95525. 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 Blue Lake is

The Census internal point of Blue Lake is at 40.881000, -123.994900. Sacramento, the capital, is 207.3 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Arcata, CA (18,748 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chico, CA, 138.4 miles away.

Daylight in Blue Lake

At 40.88° N, Blue Lake gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blue Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Arcata, 4.4 miles away, with 18,748 people.