Concord, California

Concord population, 2020 to 2024

Concord lost 1,268 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +827. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 209th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Concord is 3.3 times that size.

Concord covers 30.57 square miles of land, for 4,057 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Concord is close to the typical town.

What county Concord is in

All of Concord's residents live in Contra Costa County, which had 1,172,607 residents in 2024. Concord holds 10.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Concord

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Concord by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94518, 94519, 94520, 94521, 94565. 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 Concord is

The Census internal point of Concord is at 37.972200, -122.001600. Sacramento, the capital, is 50.0 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakland, CA (443,554 people), 18.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Antioch, CA, 11.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 49 m (161 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Concord

At 37.97° N, Concord gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Concord daylight page.

Places near Concord

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Pleasant Hill, 4.2 miles away, with 34,169 people.