Citrus Heights, California

Citrus Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Citrus Heights lost 639 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +314. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 199th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Citrus Heights is 2.3 times that size.

Citrus Heights covers 14.22 square miles of land, for 6,112 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Citrus Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Citrus Heights is in

All of Citrus Heights's residents live in Sacramento County, which had 1,611,231 residents in 2024. Citrus Heights holds 5.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Citrus Heights

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Citrus Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95610, 95621. 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 Citrus Heights is

The Census internal point of Citrus Heights is at 38.694800, -121.288000. Sacramento, the capital, is 13.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Roseville, CA (163,304 people), 5.5 miles away.

Daylight in Citrus Heights

At 38.69° N, Citrus Heights gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Citrus Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Roseville, 5.5 miles away, with 163,304 people.