Mount Shasta, California

Mount Shasta population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Shasta lost 96 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by -40.

Mount Shasta covers 3.77 square miles of land, for 829 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Mount Shasta is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Shasta is in

All of Mount Shasta's residents live in Siskiyou County, which had 42,498 residents in 2024. Mount Shasta holds 7.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Shasta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Shasta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 96067. 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 Mount Shasta is

The Census internal point of Mount Shasta is at 41.320900, -122.315500. Sacramento, the capital, is 194.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Yreka, CA (7,686 people), 32.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chico, CA, 111.0 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Shasta

At 41.32° N, Mount Shasta gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Shasta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Dunsmuir, 6.6 miles away, with 1,618 people.