Crescent City, California

Crescent City population, 2020 to 2024

Crescent City lost 322 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by +601. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 411th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Crescent City is 17% of it.

Crescent City covers 1.96 square miles of land and 0.45 of water, for 3,168 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Crescent City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Crescent City is in

All of Crescent City's residents live in Del Norte County, which had 27,009 residents in 2024. Crescent City holds 23.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crescent City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Crescent City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95531. 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 Crescent City is

The Census internal point of Crescent City is at 41.764500, -124.200800. Sacramento, the capital, is 262.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brookings, OR (6,493 people), 21.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Eugene, OR, 167.6 miles away.

Daylight in Crescent City

At 41.76° N, Crescent City gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Crescent City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Blue Lake, 62.0 miles away, with 1,159 people.