Morro Bay, California

Morro Bay population, 2020 to 2024

Morro Bay lost 170 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -19. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 256th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Morro Bay is 29% of it.

Morro Bay covers 5.34 square miles of land and 4.99 of water, for 1,983 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Morro Bay is less dense than the typical town.

What county Morro Bay is in

All of Morro Bay's residents live in San Luis Obispo County, which had 281,843 residents in 2024. Morro Bay holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morro Bay

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morro Bay by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93442. 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 Morro Bay is

The Census internal point of Morro Bay is at 35.366800, -120.868300. Sacramento, the capital, is 224.5 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Atascadero, CA (29,743 people), 13.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Santa Maria, CA, 38.4 miles away.

Daylight in Morro Bay

At 35.37° N, Morro Bay gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Morro Bay

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Atascadero, 13.1 miles away, with 29,743 people.