Poway, California

Poway population, 2020 to 2024

Poway added 650 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +822. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 115th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Poway is 1.3 times that size.

Poway covers 39.08 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,265 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Poway is less dense than the typical town.

What county Poway is in

All of Poway's residents live in San Diego County, which had 3,298,799 residents in 2024. Poway holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Poway

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Poway by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92064. 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 Poway is

The Census internal point of Poway is at 32.987700, -117.021800. Sacramento, the capital, is 460.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Santee, CA (59,104 people), 9.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Escondido, CA, 10.5 miles away.

Daylight in Poway

At 32.99° N, Poway gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Poway

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Santee, 9.4 miles away, with 59,104 people.