Pleasant Hill, California

Pleasant Hill population, 2020 to 2024

Pleasant Hill lost 420 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +165. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 227th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Pleasant Hill is 92% of it.

Pleasant Hill covers 7.08 square miles of land, for 4,826 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Pleasant Hill is denser than the typical town.

What county Pleasant Hill is in

All of Pleasant Hill's residents live in Contra Costa County, which had 1,172,607 residents in 2024. Pleasant Hill holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pleasant Hill

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pleasant Hill by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94523. 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 Pleasant Hill is

The Census internal point of Pleasant Hill is at 37.954200, -122.075800. Sacramento, the capital, is 53.4 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Martinez, CA (37,006 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, CA, 4.2 miles away.

Daylight in Pleasant Hill

At 37.95° N, Pleasant Hill gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pleasant Hill

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Martinez, 3.7 miles away, with 37,006 people.