Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Huntington Beach lost 5,271 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -183. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 316th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Huntington Beach is 5.2 times that size.

Huntington Beach covers 26.98 square miles of land and 1.33 of water, for 7,159 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Huntington Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Huntington Beach is in

All of Huntington Beach's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Huntington Beach holds 6.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Huntington Beach

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Huntington Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90742, 92646, 92647, 92648, 92649. 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 Huntington Beach is

The Census internal point of Huntington Beach is at 33.698000, -118.003800. Sacramento, the capital, is 389.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Santa Ana, CA (316,184 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Costa Mesa, CA, 5.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Huntington Beach

At 33.70° N, Huntington Beach gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Huntington Beach daylight page.

Places near Huntington Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Fountain Valley, 3.2 miles away, with 56,036 people.