Malibu, California

Malibu population, 2020 to 2024

Malibu lost 326 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.1%. In the latest year it moved by -22. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 332nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Malibu is 28% of it.

Malibu covers 19.85 square miles of land and 79.26 of water, for 519 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Malibu is less dense than the typical town.

What county Malibu is in

All of Malibu's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Malibu holds 0.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Malibu

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Malibu by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90265. 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 Malibu is

The Census internal point of Malibu is at 34.025900, -118.759600. Sacramento, the capital, is 349.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Agoura Hills, CA (19,429 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Thousand Oaks, CA, 13.3 miles away.

Daylight in Malibu

At 34.03° N, Malibu 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.

Places near Malibu

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Westlake Village, 8.3 miles away, with 7,593 people.