Hermosa Beach, California

Hermosa Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Hermosa Beach lost 976 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by -84. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 415th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Hermosa Beach is 50% of it.

Hermosa Beach covers 1.43 square miles of land and 5.01 of water, for 13,068 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Hermosa Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Hermosa Beach is in

All of Hermosa Beach's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Hermosa Beach holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hermosa Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hermosa Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90254. 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 Hermosa Beach is

The Census internal point of Hermosa Beach is at 33.869800, -118.405300. Sacramento, the capital, is 367.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Redondo Beach, CA (68,075 people), 1.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Torrance, CA, 3.9 miles away.

Daylight in Hermosa Beach

At 33.87° N, Hermosa Beach 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 Hermosa Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Redondo Beach, 1.4 miles away, with 68,075 people.