El Cerrito, California

El Cerrito population, 2020 to 2024

El Cerrito added 465 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +498. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so El Cerrito is 71% of it.

El Cerrito covers 3.67 square miles of land, for 7,196 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so El Cerrito is denser than the typical town.

What county El Cerrito is in

All of El Cerrito's residents live in Contra Costa County, which had 1,172,607 residents in 2024. El Cerrito holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in El Cerrito

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps El Cerrito by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94530. 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 El Cerrito is

The Census internal point of El Cerrito is at 37.919600, -122.302500. Sacramento, the capital, is 63.1 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Pablo, CA (31,562 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Berkeley, CA, 3.7 miles away.

Daylight in El Cerrito

At 37.92° N, El Cerrito gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near El Cerrito

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Albany, 2.2 miles away, with 19,439 people.