Davis, California

Davis population, 2020 to 2024

Davis added 222 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +438. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 149th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Davis is 1.8 times that size.

Davis covers 9.97 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 6,733 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Davis is denser than the typical town.

What county Davis is in

All of Davis's residents live in Yolo County, which had 225,251 residents in 2024. Davis holds 29.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Davis

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Davis by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95616, 95618. 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 Davis is

The Census internal point of Davis is at 38.556100, -121.737800. Sacramento, the capital, is 13.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sacramento, CA (535,798 people), 14.6 miles away.

Daylight in Davis

At 38.56° N, Davis gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Davis

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Woodland, 8.0 miles away, with 62,983 people.