Los Alamitos, California

Los Alamitos population, 2020 to 2024

Los Alamitos added 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 141st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Los Alamitos is 32% of it.

Los Alamitos covers 4.01 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 2,954 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Los Alamitos is less dense than the typical town.

What county Los Alamitos is in

All of Los Alamitos's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Los Alamitos holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Los Alamitos

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Los Alamitos by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90720. 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 Los Alamitos is

The Census internal point of Los Alamitos is at 33.796900, -118.061200. Sacramento, the capital, is 381.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cypress, CA (49,286 people), 2.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Garden Grove, CA, 5.9 miles away.

Daylight in Los Alamitos

At 33.80° N, Los Alamitos gets about 14 h 24 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 Los Alamitos

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Cypress, 2.0 miles away, with 49,286 people.