Glendale, California

Glendale population, 2020 to 2024

Glendale lost 8,124 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.1%. In the latest year it moved by -460. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 380th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Glendale is 5.1 times that size.

Glendale covers 30.48 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 6,162 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Glendale is denser than the typical town.

What county Glendale is in

All of Glendale's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Glendale holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Glendale

12 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Glendale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 91020, 91046, 91201, 91202, 91203, 91204, 91205, 91206, 91207, 91208, 91210, 91214. 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 Glendale is

The Census internal point of Glendale is at 34.181400, -118.245800. Sacramento, the capital, is 353.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Angeles, CA (3,878,704 people), 14.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Burbank, CA, 4.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 428 m (1,404 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Glendale

At 34.18° N, Glendale gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 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 Glendale daylight page.

Places near Glendale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is La Cañada Flintridge, 3.3 miles away, with 19,621 people.