Placerville, California

Placerville population, 2020 to 2024

Placerville lost 36 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -25. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 172nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Placerville is 29% of it.

Placerville covers 5.84 square miles of land, for 1,831 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Placerville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Placerville is in

All of Placerville's residents live in El Dorado County, which had 192,823 residents in 2024. Placerville holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Placerville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Placerville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95667. 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 Placerville is

The Census internal point of Placerville is at 38.731100, -120.797700. Sacramento, the capital, is 39.0 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Auburn, CA (13,780 people), 18.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Roseville, CA, 28.3 miles away.

Daylight in Placerville

At 38.73° N, Placerville gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Placerville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Plymouth, 18.2 miles away, with 1,137 people.