Los Altos, California

Los Altos population, 2020 to 2024

Los Altos lost 487 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +404. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 252nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Los Altos is 83% of it.

Los Altos covers 6.54 square miles of land, for 4,719 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Los Altos is denser than the typical town.

What county Los Altos is in

All of Los Altos's residents live in Santa Clara County, which had 1,926,325 residents in 2024. Los Altos holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Los Altos

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Los Altos by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94022, 94024. 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 Altos is

The Census internal point of Los Altos is at 37.368400, -122.096600. Sacramento, the capital, is 89.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mountain View, CA (87,316 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sunnyvale, CA, 4.0 miles away.

Daylight in Los Altos

At 37.37° N, Los Altos gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Los Altos

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Los Altos Hills, 2.3 miles away, with 8,435 people.