Galt, California

Galt population, 2020 to 2024

Galt added 930 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +429. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Galt is 72% of it.

Galt covers 7.83 square miles of land, for 3,396 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Galt is close to the typical town.

What county Galt is in

All of Galt's residents live in Sacramento County, which had 1,611,231 residents in 2024. Galt holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Galt

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Galt by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95632. 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 Galt is

The Census internal point of Galt is at 38.268500, -121.299000. Sacramento, the capital, is 23.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lodi, CA (68,642 people), 10.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elk Grove, CA, 11.1 miles away.

Daylight in Galt

At 38.27° N, Galt gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Galt

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lodi, 10.2 miles away, with 68,642 people.