Menlo Park, California

Menlo Park population, 2020 to 2024

Menlo Park lost 649 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +750. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 272nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Menlo Park is 89% of it.

Menlo Park covers 9.99 square miles of land and 7.40 of water, for 3,307 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Menlo Park is less dense than the typical town.

What county Menlo Park is in

All of Menlo Park's residents live in San Mateo County, which had 742,893 residents in 2024. Menlo Park holds 4.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Menlo Park

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Menlo Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94025. 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 Menlo Park is

The Census internal point of Menlo Park is at 37.479700, -122.148100. Sacramento, the capital, is 83.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Redwood City, CA (82,982 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sunnyvale, CA, 9.3 miles away.

Daylight in Menlo Park

At 37.48° N, Menlo Park gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Menlo Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is East Palo Alto, 1.2 miles away, with 29,296 people.