Lake Forest, California

Lake Forest population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Forest added 1,233 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +805. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 105th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Lake Forest is 2.4 times that size.

Lake Forest covers 16.71 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 5,216 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Lake Forest is denser than the typical town.

What county Lake Forest is in

All of Lake Forest's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Lake Forest holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Forest

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lake Forest by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92610, 92630. 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 Forest is

The Census internal point of Lake Forest is at 33.654900, -117.675800. Sacramento, the capital, is 401.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mission Viejo, CA (91,601 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Irvine, CA, 5.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Forest

At 33.65° N, Lake Forest 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 Lake Forest

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Mission Viejo, 3.3 miles away, with 91,601 people.