Oroville, California

Oroville population, 2020 to 2024

Oroville lost 327 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +158. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 258th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Oroville is 53% of it.

Oroville covers 13.90 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,418 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Oroville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oroville is in

All of Oroville's residents live in Butte County, which had 208,334 residents in 2024. Oroville holds 9.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oroville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Oroville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95965, 95966. 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 Oroville is

The Census internal point of Oroville is at 39.495400, -121.560100. Sacramento, the capital, is 63.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chico, CA (102,911 people), 22.8 miles away.

Daylight in Oroville

At 39.50° N, Oroville gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oroville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Biggs, 10.1 miles away, with 1,941 people.