Gonzales, California

Gonzales population, 2020 to 2024

Gonzales lost 196 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +26. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 294th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Gonzales is 23% of it.

Gonzales covers 1.91 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 4,414 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Gonzales is denser than the typical town.

What county Gonzales is in

All of Gonzales's residents live in Monterey County, which had 436,251 residents in 2024. Gonzales 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 Gonzales

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gonzales by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93926. 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 Gonzales is

The Census internal point of Gonzales is at 36.506000, -121.442900. Sacramento, the capital, is 143.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Soledad, CA (26,345 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salinas, CA, 16.5 miles away.

Daylight in Gonzales

At 36.51° N, Gonzales gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gonzales

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Soledad, 8.5 miles away, with 26,345 people.