Grass Valley, California

Grass Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Grass Valley added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 157th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Grass Valley is 38% of it.

Grass Valley covers 6.00 square miles of land, for 2,348 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Grass Valley is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grass Valley is in

All of Grass Valley's residents live in Nevada County, which had 102,195 residents in 2024. Grass Valley holds 13.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grass Valley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grass Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95945. 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 Grass Valley is

The Census internal point of Grass Valley is at 39.220300, -121.052700. Sacramento, the capital, is 50.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lincoln, CA (56,268 people), 27.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Roseville, CA, 34.2 miles away.

Daylight in Grass Valley

At 39.22° N, Grass Valley gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grass Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Nevada City, 2.9 miles away, with 3,195 people.