Porterville, California

Porterville population, 2020 to 2024

Porterville added 513 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +292. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 135th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Porterville is 1.7 times that size.

Porterville covers 18.82 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 3,375 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Porterville is close to the typical town.

What county Porterville is in

All of Porterville's residents live in Tulare County, which had 483,546 residents in 2024. Porterville holds 13.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Porterville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Porterville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93257. 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 Porterville is

The Census internal point of Porterville is at 36.063500, -119.033600. Sacramento, the capital, is 220.1 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tulare, CA (72,601 people), 19.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Visalia, CA, 24.6 miles away.

Daylight in Porterville

At 36.06° N, Porterville gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Porterville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lindsay, 10.6 miles away, with 12,706 people.