Dos Palos, California

Dos Palos population, 2020 to 2024

Dos Palos lost 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 187th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Dos Palos is 16% of it.

Dos Palos covers 1.35 square miles of land, for 4,266 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Dos Palos is denser than the typical town.

What county Dos Palos is in

All of Dos Palos's residents live in Merced County, which had 296,774 residents in 2024. Dos Palos holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dos Palos

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dos Palos by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93620. 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 Dos Palos is

The Census internal point of Dos Palos is at 36.985400, -120.633800. Sacramento, the capital, is 119.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Banos, CA (48,684 people), 12.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fresno, CA, 48.5 miles away.

Daylight in Dos Palos

At 36.99° N, Dos Palos gets about 14 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dos Palos

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Los Banos, 12.6 miles away, with 48,684 people.