Colton, California

Colton population, 2020 to 2024

Colton lost 446 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +0. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 203rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Colton is 1.4 times that size.

Colton covers 15.63 square miles of land and 0.51 of water, for 3,425 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Colton is close to the typical town.

What county Colton is in

All of Colton's residents live in San Bernardino County, which had 2,214,281 residents in 2024. Colton holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Colton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Colton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92324. 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 Colton is

The Census internal point of Colton is at 34.054500, -117.325000. Sacramento, the capital, is 389.1 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rialto, CA (104,918 people), 5.7 miles away.

Daylight in Colton

At 34.05° N, Colton gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Colton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Grand Terrace, 1.8 miles away, with 12,979 people.