Buena Park, California

Buena Park population, 2020 to 2024

Buena Park lost 1,259 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +217. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 247th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Buena Park is 2.2 times that size.

Buena Park covers 10.53 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 7,845 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Buena Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Buena Park is in

All of Buena Park's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Buena Park holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Buena Park

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Buena Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90620, 90621. 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 Buena Park is

The Census internal point of Buena Park is at 33.857400, -118.007400. Sacramento, the capital, is 379.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fullerton, CA (140,054 people), 5.0 miles away.

Daylight in Buena Park

At 33.86° N, Buena Park 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 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Buena Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is La Palma, 1.9 miles away, with 15,092 people.