Blythe, California

Blythe population, 2020 to 2024

Blythe lost 473 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -532. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 317th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Blythe is 47% of it.

Blythe covers 26.50 square miles of land and 0.77 of water, for 654 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Blythe is less dense than the typical town.

What county Blythe is in

All of Blythe's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Blythe holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blythe

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blythe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92225. 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 Blythe is

The Census internal point of Blythe is at 33.653500, -114.621800. Sacramento, the capital, is 512.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake Havasu City, AZ (59,037 people), 61.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Yuma, AZ, 78.8 miles away.

Daylight in Blythe

At 33.65° N, Blythe gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blythe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Calipatria, 60.0 miles away, with 6,522 people.