Pismo Beach, California

Pismo Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Pismo Beach lost 79 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +8. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 208th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Pismo Beach is 22% of it.

Pismo Beach covers 3.50 square miles of land and 9.88 of water, for 2,281 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Pismo Beach is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pismo Beach is in

All of Pismo Beach's residents live in San Luis Obispo County, which had 281,843 residents in 2024. Pismo Beach holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pismo Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pismo Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93449. 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 Pismo Beach is

The Census internal point of Pismo Beach is at 35.153200, -120.673900. Sacramento, the capital, is 240.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grover Beach, CA (12,534 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Santa Maria, CA, 20.0 miles away.

Daylight in Pismo Beach

At 35.15° N, Pismo Beach gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pismo Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Grover Beach, 3.8 miles away, with 12,534 people.