Mendota, California

Mendota population, 2020 to 2024

Mendota added 32 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +45. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 154th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Mendota is 34% of it.

Mendota covers 3.30 square miles of land, for 3,825 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Mendota is close to the typical town.

What county Mendota is in

All of Mendota's residents live in Fresno County, which had 1,024,125 residents in 2024. Mendota holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mendota

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mendota by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93640. 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 Mendota is

The Census internal point of Mendota is at 36.757600, -120.380500. Sacramento, the capital, is 139.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kerman, CA (17,497 people), 17.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fresno, CA, 32.6 miles away.

Daylight in Mendota

At 36.76° N, Mendota gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mendota

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Firebaugh, 7.8 miles away, with 8,424 people.