Hawthorne, California

Hawthorne population, 2020 to 2024

Hawthorne lost 4,158 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.7%. In the latest year it moved by -332. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 402nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Hawthorne is 2.3 times that size.

Hawthorne covers 6.09 square miles of land, for 13,733 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Hawthorne is denser than the typical town.

What county Hawthorne is in

All of Hawthorne's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Hawthorne holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hawthorne

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hawthorne by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90250, 90304. 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 Hawthorne is

The Census internal point of Hawthorne is at 33.914800, -118.348100. Sacramento, the capital, is 366.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Inglewood, CA (102,774 people), 2.9 miles away.

Daylight in Hawthorne

At 33.91° N, Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lawndale, 1.8 miles away, with 30,160 people.