Lake Elsinore, California

Lake Elsinore population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Elsinore added 3,031 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +416. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 51st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Lake Elsinore is 2.0 times that size.

Lake Elsinore covers 38.27 square miles of land and 5.27 of water, for 1,923 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Lake Elsinore is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Elsinore is in

All of Lake Elsinore's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Lake Elsinore holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Elsinore

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lake Elsinore by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92530, 92532, 92570. 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 Lake Elsinore is

The Census internal point of Lake Elsinore is at 33.686000, -117.335400. Sacramento, the capital, is 409.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Menifee, CA (117,041 people), 8.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Elsinore

At 33.69° N, Lake Elsinore gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Elsinore

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Canyon Lake, 4.1 miles away, with 11,161 people.