Delano, California

Delano population, 2020 to 2024

Delano added 3,305 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.6%. In the latest year it moved by +879. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Delano is 1.4 times that size.

Delano covers 14.72 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 3,614 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Delano is close to the typical town.

What county Delano is in

All of Delano's residents live in Kern County, which had 922,529 residents in 2024. Delano holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Delano

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Delano by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93215. 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 Delano is

The Census internal point of Delano is at 35.766400, -119.264200. Sacramento, the capital, is 229.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Porterville, CA (63,517 people), 24.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Bakersfield, CA, 31.3 miles away.

Daylight in Delano

At 35.77° N, Delano gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Delano

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is McFarland, 7.1 miles away, with 14,365 people.