Goleta, California

Goleta population, 2020 to 2024

Goleta lost 151 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -53. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 183rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Goleta is 88% of it.

Goleta covers 7.85 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 4,154 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Goleta is denser than the typical town.

What county Goleta is in

All of Goleta's residents live in Santa Barbara County, which had 444,500 residents in 2024. Goleta holds 7.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Goleta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Goleta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93117. 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 Goleta is

The Census internal point of Goleta is at 34.435400, -119.858900. Sacramento, the capital, is 300.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Santa Barbara, CA (87,291 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA, 36.4 miles away.

Daylight in Goleta

At 34.44° N, Goleta gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Goleta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Santa Barbara, 8.6 miles away, with 87,291 people.