Fountain Valley, California

Fountain Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Fountain Valley lost 936 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +218. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 259th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Fountain Valley is 1.5 times that size.

Fountain Valley covers 9.07 square miles of land, for 6,178 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Fountain Valley is denser than the typical town.

What county Fountain Valley is in

All of Fountain Valley's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Fountain Valley holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fountain Valley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fountain Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92708. 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 Fountain Valley is

The Census internal point of Fountain Valley is at 33.710600, -117.951100. Sacramento, the capital, is 390.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huntington Beach, CA (193,151 people), 3.2 miles away.

Daylight in Fountain Valley

At 33.71° N, Fountain Valley gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fountain Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Huntington Beach, 3.2 miles away, with 193,151 people.