Pleasanton, California

Pleasanton population, 2020 to 2024

Pleasanton lost 4,007 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by +76. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 417th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Pleasanton is 2.0 times that size.

Pleasanton covers 24.14 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 3,134 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Pleasanton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pleasanton is in

All of Pleasanton's residents live in Alameda County, which had 1,649,060 residents in 2024. Pleasanton holds 4.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pleasanton

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Pleasanton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94566, 94588. 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 Pleasanton is

The Census internal point of Pleasanton is at 37.667200, -121.881200. Sacramento, the capital, is 66.3 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Livermore, CA (84,867 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fremont, CA, 12.4 miles away.

Daylight in Pleasanton

At 37.67° N, Pleasanton gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pleasanton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Dublin, 3.5 miles away, with 70,544 people.