Oakland, California

Oakland population, 2020 to 2024

Oakland added 2,571 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +4,099. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 142nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Oakland is 12.0 times that size.

Oakland covers 55.96 square miles of land and 22.07 of water, for 7,926 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Oakland is denser than the typical town.

What county Oakland is in

All of Oakland's residents live in Alameda County, which had 1,649,060 residents in 2024. Oakland holds 26.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oakland

16 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Oakland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94601, 94602, 94603, 94605, 94606, 94607, 94608, 94609, 94610, 94611, 94612, 94613, 94618, 94619, 94621, 94705. 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 Oakland is

The Census internal point of Oakland is at 37.769800, -122.225700. Sacramento, the capital, is 68.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Jose, CA (997,368 people), 39.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Berkeley, CA, 7.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Oakland

At 37.77° N, Oakland gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Oakland daylight page.

Places near Oakland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Alameda, 2.7 miles away, with 78,795 people.