Dunsmuir, California

Dunsmuir population, 2020 to 2024

Dunsmuir lost 85 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by -23.

Dunsmuir covers 1.60 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,011 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Dunsmuir is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dunsmuir is in

All of Dunsmuir's residents live in Siskiyou County, which had 42,498 residents in 2024. Dunsmuir holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dunsmuir

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dunsmuir by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 96025. 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 Dunsmuir is

The Census internal point of Dunsmuir is at 41.231500, -122.270900. Sacramento, the capital, is 188.0 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Shasta, CA (3,124 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chico, CA, 104.5 miles away.

Daylight in Dunsmuir

At 41.23° N, Dunsmuir gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dunsmuir

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Shasta, 6.6 miles away, with 3,124 people.