Lawndale, California

Lawndale population, 2020 to 2024

Lawndale lost 1,570 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by -173. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 413th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Lawndale is 81% of it.

Lawndale covers 1.97 square miles of land, for 15,310 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Lawndale is denser than the typical town.

What county Lawndale is in

All of Lawndale's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Lawndale holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lawndale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lawndale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90260. 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 Lawndale is

The Census internal point of Lawndale is at 33.888400, -118.353100. Sacramento, the capital, is 368.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hawthorne, CA (83,633 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Torrance, CA, 4.0 miles away.

Daylight in Lawndale

At 33.89° N, Lawndale 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 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lawndale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Hawthorne, 1.8 miles away, with 83,633 people.