Laguna Beach, California

Laguna Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Laguna Beach lost 441 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +56. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 270th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Laguna Beach is 61% of it.

Laguna Beach covers 8.90 square miles of land and 0.97 of water, for 2,535 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Laguna Beach is less dense than the typical town.

What county Laguna Beach is in

All of Laguna Beach's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Laguna Beach holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Laguna Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Laguna Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92651. 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 Laguna Beach is

The Census internal point of Laguna Beach is at 33.543400, -117.761800. Sacramento, the capital, is 405.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Aliso Viejo, CA (50,457 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Irvine, CA, 9.3 miles away.

Daylight in Laguna Beach

At 33.54° N, Laguna Beach gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Laguna Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Aliso Viejo, 3.1 miles away, with 50,457 people.