Mission Viejo, California

Mission Viejo population, 2020 to 2024

Mission Viejo lost 1,862 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +265. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 277th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Mission Viejo is 2.5 times that size.

Mission Viejo covers 17.66 square miles of land and 0.37 of water, for 5,187 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Mission Viejo is denser than the typical town.

What county Mission Viejo is in

All of Mission Viejo's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Mission Viejo holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mission Viejo

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mission Viejo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92691, 92692. 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 Mission Viejo is

The Census internal point of Mission Viejo is at 33.609300, -117.656500. Sacramento, the capital, is 404.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Irvine, CA (318,683 people), 8.1 miles away.

Daylight in Mission Viejo

At 33.61° N, Mission Viejo gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mission Viejo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Laguna Hills, 2.7 miles away, with 30,378 people.