Lafayette, California

Lafayette population, 2020 to 2024

Lafayette lost 15 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +182. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 164th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Lafayette is 68% of it.

Lafayette covers 15.02 square miles of land and 0.17 of water, for 1,689 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Lafayette is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lafayette is in

All of Lafayette's residents live in Contra Costa County, which had 1,172,607 residents in 2024. Lafayette holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lafayette

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lafayette by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94549. 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 Lafayette is

The Census internal point of Lafayette is at 37.891000, -122.119500. Sacramento, the capital, is 58.3 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Walnut Creek, CA (70,817 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, CA, 8.5 miles away.

Daylight in Lafayette

At 37.89° N, Lafayette gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lafayette

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Orinda, 2.8 miles away, with 19,573 people.