Los Banos, California

Los Banos population, 2020 to 2024

Los Banos added 2,965 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.5%. In the latest year it moved by +178. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 28th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Los Banos is 1.3 times that size.

Los Banos covers 10.00 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 4,868 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Los Banos is denser than the typical town.

What county Los Banos is in

All of Los Banos's residents live in Merced County, which had 296,774 residents in 2024. Los Banos holds 16.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Los Banos

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Los Banos by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93635. 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 Banos is

The Census internal point of Los Banos is at 37.063200, -120.840300. Sacramento, the capital, is 110.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Merced, CA (96,073 people), 26.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Modesto, CA, 40.7 miles away.

Daylight in Los Banos

At 37.06° N, Los Banos gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Los Banos

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Dos Palos, 12.6 miles away, with 5,759 people.