Imperial, California

Imperial population, 2020 to 2024

Imperial added 1,633 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.0%. In the latest year it moved by +288. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Imperial is 60% of it.

Imperial covers 6.31 square miles of land, for 3,503 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Imperial is close to the typical town.

What county Imperial is in

All of Imperial's residents live in Imperial County, which had 181,724 residents in 2024. Imperial holds 12.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Imperial

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Imperial by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92251. 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 Imperial is

The Census internal point of Imperial is at 32.838800, -115.572000. Sacramento, the capital, is 517.0 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is El Centro, CA (44,230 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Yuma, AZ, 65.0 miles away.

Daylight in Imperial

At 32.84° N, Imperial gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Imperial

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is El Centro, 3.7 miles away, with 44,230 people.