Hollister, California

Hollister population, 2020 to 2024

Hollister added 3,150 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.5%. In the latest year it moved by +416. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 22nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Hollister is 1.2 times that size.

Hollister covers 7.96 square miles of land, for 5,657 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Hollister is denser than the typical town.

What county Hollister is in

All of Hollister's residents live in San Benito County, which had 69,159 residents in 2024. Hollister holds 65.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hollister

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hollister by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95023. 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 Hollister is

The Census internal point of Hollister is at 36.855600, -121.398600. Sacramento, the capital, is 119.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gilroy, CA (60,390 people), 14.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salinas, CA, 17.3 miles away.

Daylight in Hollister

At 36.86° N, Hollister gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hollister

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is San Juan Bautista, 7.7 miles away, with 2,118 people.