Elk Grove, California

Elk Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Elk Grove added 6,218 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +2,954. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Elk Grove is 4.9 times that size.

Elk Grove covers 42.60 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 4,291 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Elk Grove is denser than the typical town.

What county Elk Grove is in

All of Elk Grove's residents live in Sacramento County, which had 1,611,231 residents in 2024. Elk Grove holds 11.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elk Grove

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Elk Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95624, 95757, 95758. 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 Elk Grove is

The Census internal point of Elk Grove is at 38.414600, -121.385000. Sacramento, the capital, is 12.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sacramento, CA (535,798 people), 11.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Elk Grove

At 38.41° N, Elk Grove gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 22 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 Elk Grove daylight page.

Places near Elk Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Galt, 11.1 miles away, with 26,589 people.