Compton, California

Compton population, 2020 to 2024

Compton lost 4,277 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.5%. In the latest year it moved by -357. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 389th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Compton is 2.5 times that size.

Compton covers 10.03 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 9,086 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Compton is denser than the typical town.

What county Compton is in

All of Compton's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Compton holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Compton

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Compton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90220, 90221, 90222. 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 Compton is

The Census internal point of Compton is at 33.894000, -118.227500. Sacramento, the capital, is 371.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Carson, CA (91,358 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Downey, CA, 6.3 miles away.

Daylight in Compton

At 33.89° N, Compton 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 Compton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lynwood, 2.5 miles away, with 63,596 people.