Cerritos, California

Cerritos population, 2020 to 2024

Cerritos lost 2,543 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.1%. In the latest year it moved by -260. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 419th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Cerritos is 1.3 times that size.

Cerritos covers 8.73 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 5,367 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Cerritos is denser than the typical town.

What county Cerritos is in

All of Cerritos's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Cerritos holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cerritos

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cerritos by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90703. 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 Cerritos is

The Census internal point of Cerritos is at 33.867700, -118.069500. Sacramento, the capital, is 377.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Norwalk, CA (98,230 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Downey, CA, 6.0 miles away.

Daylight in Cerritos

At 33.87° N, Cerritos 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 Cerritos

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Artesia, 0.6 miles away, with 15,662 people.