Daly City, California

Daly City population, 2020 to 2024

Daly City lost 3,527 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +657. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 347th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Daly City is 2.7 times that size.

Daly City covers 7.65 square miles of land, for 13,257 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Daly City is denser than the typical town.

What county Daly City is in

All of Daly City's residents live in San Mateo County, which had 742,893 residents in 2024. Daly City holds 13.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Daly City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Daly City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94014, 94015. 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 Daly City is

The Census internal point of Daly City is at 37.701700, -122.465000. Sacramento, the capital, is 80.3 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Mateo, CA (103,006 people), 12.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 101 m (331 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Daly City

At 37.70° N, Daly City gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 13 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 Daly City daylight page.

Places near Daly City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Colma, 1.9 miles away, with 1,428 people.