King City, California

King City population, 2020 to 2024

King City added 566 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +122. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 52nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so King City is 38% of it.

King City covers 3.80 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 3,663 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so King City is close to the typical town.

What county King City is in

All of King City's residents live in Monterey County, which had 436,251 residents in 2024. King City holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in King City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps King City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93930. 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 King City is

The Census internal point of King City is at 36.216300, -121.132000. Sacramento, the capital, is 164.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenfield, CA (21,042 people), 9.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salinas, CA, 43.0 miles away.

Daylight in King City

At 36.22° N, King City gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near King City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Greenfield, 9.7 miles away, with 21,042 people.