Lakewood, California

Lakewood population, 2020 to 2024

Lakewood lost 3,731 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.5%. In the latest year it moved by -223. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 394th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Lakewood is 2.1 times that size.

Lakewood covers 9.39 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 8,359 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Lakewood is denser than the typical town.

What county Lakewood is in

All of Lakewood's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Lakewood holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lakewood

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lakewood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90712, 90713, 90715. 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 Lakewood is

The Census internal point of Lakewood is at 33.847100, -118.121900. Sacramento, the capital, is 376.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Norwalk, CA (98,230 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Long Beach, CA, 5.3 miles away.

Daylight in Lakewood

At 33.85° N, Lakewood gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lakewood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Artesia, 2.8 miles away, with 15,662 people.