Ceres, California

Ceres population, 2020 to 2024

Ceres lost 441 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +161. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 205th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Ceres is 1.3 times that size.

Ceres covers 9.50 square miles of land, for 5,185 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Ceres is denser than the typical town.

What county Ceres is in

All of Ceres's residents live in Stanislaus County, which had 556,972 residents in 2024. Ceres holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ceres

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ceres by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95307, 95351, 95358. 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 Ceres is

The Census internal point of Ceres is at 37.598800, -120.968100. Sacramento, the capital, is 73.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Modesto, CA (220,592 people), 3.3 miles away.

Daylight in Ceres

At 37.60° N, Ceres gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ceres

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Modesto, 3.3 miles away, with 220,592 people.