El Monte, California

El Monte population, 2020 to 2024

El Monte lost 4,480 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.1%. In the latest year it moved by -49. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 377th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so El Monte is 2.8 times that size.

El Monte covers 9.56 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 10,946 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so El Monte is denser than the typical town.

What county El Monte is in

All of El Monte's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. El Monte holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in El Monte

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap El Monte by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 91731, 91732, 91733. 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 Monte is

The Census internal point of El Monte is at 34.074600, -118.029100. Sacramento, the capital, is 366.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West Covina, CA (106,920 people), 7.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 91 m (299 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in El Monte

At 34.07° N, El Monte gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the El Monte daylight page.

Places near El Monte

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is South El Monte, 2.0 miles away, with 19,121 people.