Portola Valley, California

Portola Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Portola Valley lost 164 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +40.

Portola Valley covers 9.08 square miles of land, for 472 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Portola Valley is less dense than the typical town.

What county Portola Valley is in

All of Portola Valley's residents live in San Mateo County, which had 742,893 residents in 2024. Portola Valley holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portola Valley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Portola Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 94028. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Portola Valley is

The Census internal point of Portola Valley is at 37.365200, -122.232700. Sacramento, the capital, is 92.9 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Woodside, CA (5,123 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sunnyvale, CA, 11.4 miles away.

Daylight in Portola Valley

At 37.37° N, Portola Valley gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Portola Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Woodside, 4.2 miles away, with 5,123 people.