Lemon Grove, California

Lemon Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Lemon Grove added 115 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +143. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 148th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Lemon Grove is 75% of it.

Lemon Grove covers 3.88 square miles of land, for 7,182 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Lemon Grove is denser than the typical town.

What county Lemon Grove is in

All of Lemon Grove's residents live in San Diego County, which had 3,298,799 residents in 2024. Lemon Grove 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 Lemon Grove

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lemon Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 91945. 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 Lemon Grove is

The Census internal point of Lemon Grove is at 32.733100, -117.034400. Sacramento, the capital, is 474.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Mesa, CA (60,767 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is El Cajon, CA, 6.4 miles away.

Daylight in Lemon Grove

At 32.73° N, Lemon Grove gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lemon Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is La Mesa, 2.6 miles away, with 60,767 people.