California · Census place 0645736
Maricopa, California
Maricopa is a city in Kern County, California with an estimated 1,012 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 468th largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,012
- #468 of 468 in California
- Change since 2020
- -1.1%
- -11 people
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 645 / sq mi
- State median 3,725
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Maricopa population, 2020 to 2024
Maricopa lost 11 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by -2.
Maricopa covers 1.57 square miles of land, for 645 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Maricopa is less dense than the typical town.
What county Maricopa is in
All of Maricopa's residents live in Kern County, which had 922,529 residents in 2024. Maricopa 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 Maricopa
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Maricopa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93252. 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 Maricopa is
The Census internal point of Maricopa is at 35.050900, -119.406600. Sacramento, the capital, is 269.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Taft, CA (6,988 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Bakersfield, CA, 29.5 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 35.050900, -119.406600
- DMS
- 35°03'3.24"N 119°24'23.76"W
- UTM
- 11N 280507.7E 3881336.0N
- Geohash
- 9q5p6uff2
- Plus code
- 85723H2V+99
Daylight in Maricopa
At 35.05° N, Maricopa gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Maricopa
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Taft, 5.3 miles away, with 6,988 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Maricopa, CA?
1,012 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 11 (1.1%) from 1,023 in July 2020.
What county is Maricopa in?
Kern County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Maricopa?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 93252.
How far is Maricopa from Sacramento?
269.6 miles (433.9 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Maricopa.
What is the nearest larger city to Maricopa?
Taft, CA, with 6,988 residents, 5.3 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.