Capitola, California

Capitola population, 2020 to 2024

Capitola lost 407 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.1%. In the latest year it moved by -84. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 378th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Capitola is 26% of it.

Capitola covers 1.59 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 5,977 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Capitola is denser than the typical town.

What county Capitola is in

All of Capitola's residents live in Santa Cruz County, which had 262,406 residents in 2024. Capitola holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Capitola

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Capitola by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95010. 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 Capitola is

The Census internal point of Capitola is at 36.976100, -121.954000. Sacramento, the capital, is 113.4 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Santa Cruz, CA (62,581 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is San Jose, CA, 23.4 miles away.

Daylight in Capitola

At 36.98° N, Capitola gets about 14 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Capitola

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Santa Cruz, 4.5 miles away, with 62,581 people.