Pacifica, California

Pacifica population, 2020 to 2024

Pacifica lost 1,485 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +299. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 360th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Pacifica is 1.0 times that size.

Pacifica covers 12.58 square miles of land, for 2,946 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Pacifica is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pacifica is in

All of Pacifica's residents live in San Mateo County, which had 742,893 residents in 2024. Pacifica holds 5.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pacifica

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pacifica by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94044. 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 Pacifica is

The Census internal point of Pacifica is at 37.606600, -122.477200. Sacramento, the capital, is 85.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Bruno, CA (42,035 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Daly City, CA, 6.6 miles away.

Daylight in Pacifica

At 37.61° N, Pacifica gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pacifica

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is San Bruno, 2.8 miles away, with 42,035 people.