Danville, California

Danville population, 2020 to 2024

Danville lost 153 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +179. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 173rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Danville is 1.2 times that size.

Danville covers 18.08 square miles of land, for 2,401 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Danville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Danville is in

All of Danville's residents live in Contra Costa County, which had 1,172,607 residents in 2024. Danville holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Danville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Danville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 94506, 94526. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Danville is

The Census internal point of Danville is at 37.812100, -121.969800. Sacramento, the capital, is 58.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Ramon, CA (85,924 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, CA, 11.2 miles away.

Daylight in Danville

At 37.81° N, Danville 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 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Danville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is San Ramon, 3.8 miles away, with 85,924 people.