Dana Point, California

Dana Point population, 2020 to 2024

Dana Point lost 482 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -59. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 246th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Dana Point is 88% of it.

Dana Point covers 6.49 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 5,021 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Dana Point is denser than the typical town.

What county Dana Point is in

All of Dana Point's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Dana Point holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dana Point

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Dana Point by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92624, 92629. 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 Dana Point is

The Census internal point of Dana Point is at 33.475500, -117.693100. Sacramento, the capital, is 411.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Juan Capistrano, CA (35,469 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Irvine, CA, 14.7 miles away.

Daylight in Dana Point

At 33.48° N, Dana Point gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dana Point

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is San Juan Capistrano, 2.8 miles away, with 35,469 people.