Corona, California

Corona population, 2020 to 2024

Corona added 4,191 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1,049. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 80th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Corona is 4.4 times that size.

Corona covers 39.89 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 4,050 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Corona is close to the typical town.

What county Corona is in

All of Corona's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Corona holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Corona

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Corona by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92879, 92880, 92881, 92882. 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 Corona is

The Census internal point of Corona is at 33.862000, -117.565500. Sacramento, the capital, is 392.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anaheim, CA (344,561 people), 11.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 252 m (827 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Corona

At 33.86° N, Corona 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. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Corona daylight page.

Places near Corona

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Norco, 4.5 miles away, with 25,400 people.