Fort Bragg, California

Fort Bragg population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Bragg added 142 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +121. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 91st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Fort Bragg is 19% of it.

Fort Bragg covers 2.89 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,463 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Fort Bragg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Bragg is in

All of Fort Bragg's residents live in Mendocino County, which had 89,175 residents in 2024. Fort Bragg holds 8.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Bragg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Bragg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95437. 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 Fort Bragg is

The Census internal point of Fort Bragg is at 39.439800, -123.801800. Sacramento, the capital, is 137.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ukiah, CA (16,067 people), 37.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Santa Rosa, CA, 90.5 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Bragg

At 39.44° N, Fort Bragg gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Bragg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Willits, 24.3 miles away, with 4,844 people.