California · Census place 0646842

Menifee, California

Menifee is a city in Riverside County, California with an estimated 117,041 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 55th largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
117,041
#55 of 468 in California
Change since 2020
+13.4%
+13,823 people
Land area
46.5 sq mi
+ 0.15 sq mi water
Density
2,519 / sq mi
State median 3,725
Orange pin: Menifee. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Sacramento.

Menifee population, 2020 to 2024

Menifee added 13,823 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.4%. In the latest year it moved by +3,357. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Menifee is 3.2 times that size.

103.2k2020107.0k2021110.5k2022113.7k2023117.0k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 102,523. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Menifee covers 46.46 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 2,519 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Menifee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Menifee is in

All of Menifee's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Menifee holds 4.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Menifee

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Menifee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92584, 92585, 92586, 92587. 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 Menifee is

The Census internal point of Menifee is at 33.689900, -117.184400. Sacramento, the capital, is 414.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Moreno Valley, CA (213,919 people), 16.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Murrieta, CA, 8.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 434 m (1,424 ft) above sea level.

Internal point

Decimal
33.689900, -117.184400
DMS
33°41'23.64"N 117°11'3.84"W
UTM
11N 482909.4E 3727788.8N
Geohash
9muxtmhcv
Plus code
8554MRQ8+X6
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles

Daylight in Menifee

At 33.69° N, Menifee gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 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 Menifee daylight page.

Places near Menifee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Canyon Lake, 4.5 miles away, with 11,161 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Menifee, CA?

117,041 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 13,823 (13.4%) from 103,218 in July 2020.

What county is Menifee in?

Riverside County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Menifee?

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 92584, 92585, 92586, 92587.

How far is Menifee from Sacramento?

414.4 miles (667.0 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Menifee.

What is the nearest larger city to Menifee?

Moreno Valley, CA, with 213,919 residents, 16.2 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
  5. 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)

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