Gardena, California

Gardena population, 2020 to 2024

Gardena lost 1,907 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +127. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 336th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Gardena is 1.6 times that size.

Gardena covers 5.83 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 10,107 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Gardena is denser than the typical town.

What county Gardena is in

All of Gardena's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Gardena holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gardena

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Gardena by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90247, 90249. 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 Gardena is

The Census internal point of Gardena is at 33.894400, -118.307500. Sacramento, the capital, is 369.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hawthorne, CA (83,633 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Inglewood, CA, 4.8 miles away.

Daylight in Gardena

At 33.89° N, Gardena gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gardena

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lawndale, 2.6 miles away, with 30,160 people.