Laguna Woods, California

Laguna Woods population, 2020 to 2024

Laguna Woods lost 554 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.1%. In the latest year it moved by -41. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 337th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Laguna Woods is 46% of it.

Laguna Woods covers 3.34 square miles of land, for 5,107 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Laguna Woods is denser than the typical town.

What county Laguna Woods is in

All of Laguna Woods's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Laguna Woods holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Laguna Woods

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Laguna Woods by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92637. 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 Woods is

The Census internal point of Laguna Woods is at 33.612100, -117.730300. Sacramento, the capital, is 402.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Aliso Viejo, CA (50,457 people), 2.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Irvine, CA, 5.2 miles away.

Daylight in Laguna Woods

At 33.61° N, Laguna Woods gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Laguna Woods

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Aliso Viejo, 2.3 miles away, with 50,457 people.