Imperial Beach, California

Imperial Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Imperial Beach lost 533 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -27. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 283rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Imperial Beach is 69% of it.

Imperial Beach covers 4.29 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 5,960 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Imperial Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Imperial Beach is in

All of Imperial Beach's residents live in San Diego County, which had 3,298,799 residents in 2024. Imperial Beach holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Imperial Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Imperial Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 91932. 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 Beach is

The Census internal point of Imperial Beach is at 32.569100, -117.114900. Sacramento, the capital, is 482.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is National City, CA (58,460 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chula Vista, CA, 7.1 miles away.

Daylight in Imperial Beach

At 32.57° N, Imperial Beach gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Imperial Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Coronado, 6.6 miles away, with 18,031 people.