Chowchilla, California

Chowchilla population, 2020 to 2024

Chowchilla added 256 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -141. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 113th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Chowchilla is 52% of it.

Chowchilla covers 11.54 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,663 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Chowchilla is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chowchilla is in

All of Chowchilla's residents live in Madera County, which had 165,432 residents in 2024. Chowchilla holds 11.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chowchilla

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chowchilla by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93610. 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 Chowchilla is

The Census internal point of Chowchilla is at 37.116100, -120.242000. Sacramento, the capital, is 121.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Madera, CA (69,094 people), 13.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fresno, CA, 33.8 miles away.

Daylight in Chowchilla

At 37.12° N, Chowchilla gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chowchilla

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Madera, 13.5 miles away, with 69,094 people.