Hercules, California

Hercules population, 2020 to 2024

Hercules added 382 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +66. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 104th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Hercules is 72% of it.

Hercules covers 6.41 square miles of land and 13.57 of water, for 4,134 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Hercules is denser than the typical town.

What county Hercules is in

All of Hercules's residents live in Contra Costa County, which had 1,172,607 residents in 2024. Hercules holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hercules

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hercules by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94547, 94572. 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 Hercules is

The Census internal point of Hercules is at 38.021400, -122.288900. Sacramento, the capital, is 57.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Pablo, CA (31,562 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Vallejo, CA, 6.1 miles away.

Daylight in Hercules

At 38.02° N, Hercules gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hercules

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Pinole, 2.1 miles away, with 18,663 people.