Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles population, 2020 to 2024

Los Angeles lost 17,625 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +31,276. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 182nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Los Angeles is 104.7 times that size.

Los Angeles covers 470.52 square miles of land and 31.05 of water, for 8,243 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Los Angeles is denser than the typical town.

What county Los Angeles is in

All of Los Angeles's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Los Angeles holds 39.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Los Angeles

119 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Los Angeles by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90001, 90002, 90003, 90004, 90005, 90006, 90007, 90008, 90010, 90011, 90012, 90013, 90014, 90015, 90016, 90017, 90018, 90019, 90020, 90021, 90023, 90024, 90025, 90026, 90027, 90028, 90029, 90031, 90032, 90033, 90034, 90035, 90036, 90037, 90038, 90039, 90041, 90042, 90043, 90044, 90045, 90046, 90047, 90048, 90049, 90052, 90057, 90058, 90059, 90061, 90062, 90063, 90064, 90065, 90066, 90067, 90068, 90069, 90071, 90077, 90079, 90089, 90094, 90095, 90210, 90230, 90247, 90248, 90272, 90291, 90292, 90293, 90402, 90501, 90502, 90710, 90731, 90732, 90744, 91040, 91042, 91303, 91304, 91306, 91307, 91311, 91316, 91324, 91325, 91326, 91330, 91331, 91335, 91340, 91342, 91343, 91344, 91345, 91352, 91356, 91364, 91367, 91371, 91401, 91402, 91403, 91405, 91406, 91411, 91423, 91436, 91504, 91601, 91602, 91604, 91605, 91606, 91607, 91608. 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 Angeles is

The Census internal point of Los Angeles is at 34.019400, -118.410800. Sacramento, the capital, is 358.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New York, NY (8,478,072 people), 2,459.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Inglewood, CA, 5.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 29 m (95 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Los Angeles

At 34.02° N, Los Angeles gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Los Angeles daylight page.

Places near Los Angeles

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Culver City, 1.2 miles away, with 39,883 people.