Canyon Lake, California

Canyon Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Canyon Lake added 77 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +34. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 140th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Canyon Lake is 30% of it.

Canyon Lake covers 3.89 square miles of land and 0.74 of water, for 2,869 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Canyon Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Canyon Lake is in

All of Canyon Lake's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Canyon Lake holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Canyon Lake

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Canyon Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92570, 92587. 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 Canyon Lake is

The Census internal point of Canyon Lake is at 33.688300, -117.263500. Sacramento, the capital, is 412.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake Elsinore, CA (73,595 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Menifee, CA, 4.5 miles away.

Daylight in Canyon Lake

At 33.69° N, Canyon Lake gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Canyon Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake Elsinore, 4.1 miles away, with 73,595 people.