Lathrop, California

Lathrop population, 2020 to 2024

Lathrop added 11,737 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +40.3%. In the latest year it moved by +2,139. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 2nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Lathrop is 1.1 times that size.

Lathrop covers 19.83 square miles of land and 1.18 of water, for 2,061 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Lathrop is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lathrop is in

All of Lathrop's residents live in San Joaquin County, which had 816,108 residents in 2024. Lathrop holds 5.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lathrop

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lathrop by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95231, 95330. 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 Lathrop is

The Census internal point of Lathrop is at 37.808700, -121.317800. Sacramento, the capital, is 53.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Manteca, CA (94,292 people), 4.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tracy, CA, 9.3 miles away.

Daylight in Lathrop

At 37.81° N, Lathrop gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lathrop

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Manteca, 4.9 miles away, with 94,292 people.