Portola, California

Portola population, 2020 to 2024

Portola lost 7 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -37.

Portola covers 5.41 square miles of land, for 386 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Portola is less dense than the typical town.

What county Portola is in

All of Portola's residents live in Plumas County, which had 18,834 residents in 2024. Portola holds 11.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portola

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Portola by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 96122. 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 Portola is

The Census internal point of Portola is at 39.820800, -120.474300. Sacramento, the capital, is 101.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Truckee, CA (17,240 people), 35.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Reno, NV, 38.2 miles away.

Daylight in Portola

At 39.82° N, Portola gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Portola

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Truckee, 35.8 miles away, with 17,240 people.