Milpitas, California

Milpitas population, 2020 to 2024

Milpitas lost 40 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +1,325. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 163rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Milpitas is 2.2 times that size.

Milpitas covers 13.48 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 5,916 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Milpitas is denser than the typical town.

What county Milpitas is in

All of Milpitas's residents live in Santa Clara County, which had 1,926,325 residents in 2024. Milpitas holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Milpitas

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Milpitas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95035. 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 Milpitas is

The Census internal point of Milpitas is at 37.433100, -121.890900. Sacramento, the capital, is 81.9 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fremont, CA (228,192 people), 5.0 miles away.

Daylight in Milpitas

At 37.43° N, Milpitas 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 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Milpitas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Fremont, 5.1 miles away, with 228,192 people.