Rancho Cordova, California

Rancho Cordova population, 2020 to 2024

Rancho Cordova added 4,482 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1,278. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Rancho Cordova is 2.3 times that size.

Rancho Cordova covers 34.57 square miles of land and 0.31 of water, for 2,433 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Rancho Cordova is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rancho Cordova is in

All of Rancho Cordova's residents live in Sacramento County, which had 1,611,231 residents in 2024. Rancho Cordova holds 5.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rancho Cordova

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rancho Cordova by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95670, 95742, 95827. 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 Rancho Cordova is

The Census internal point of Rancho Cordova is at 38.577100, -121.236200. Sacramento, the capital, is 13.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Folsom, CA (88,091 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sacramento, CA, 12.6 miles away.

Daylight in Rancho Cordova

At 38.58° N, Rancho Cordova gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rancho Cordova

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Folsom, 8.0 miles away, with 88,091 people.