East Palo Alto, California

East Palo Alto population, 2020 to 2024

East Palo Alto lost 648 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +609. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 290th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so East Palo Alto is 79% of it.

East Palo Alto covers 2.53 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 11,579 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so East Palo Alto is denser than the typical town.

What county East Palo Alto is in

All of East Palo Alto's residents live in San Mateo County, which had 742,893 residents in 2024. East Palo Alto holds 3.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in East Palo Alto

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps East Palo Alto by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94303. 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 East Palo Alto is

The Census internal point of East Palo Alto is at 37.467800, -122.132500. Sacramento, the capital, is 84.1 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Menlo Park, CA (33,040 people), 1.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sunnyvale, CA, 8.1 miles away.

Daylight in East Palo Alto

At 37.47° N, East Palo Alto gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near East Palo Alto

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Menlo Park, 1.2 miles away, with 33,040 people.