Palmdale, California

Palmdale population, 2020 to 2024

Palmdale lost 6,371 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -69. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 356th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Palmdale is 4.4 times that size.

Palmdale covers 106.06 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 1,532 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Palmdale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palmdale is in

All of Palmdale's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Palmdale holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palmdale

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Palmdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93550, 93551, 93552, 93591. 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 Palmdale is

The Census internal point of Palmdale is at 34.591000, -118.105400. Sacramento, the capital, is 333.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lancaster, CA (167,426 people), 8.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 795 m (2,608 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Palmdale

At 34.59° N, Palmdale gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 38 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 Palmdale daylight page.

Places near Palmdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lancaster, 8.1 miles away, with 167,426 people.