Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Rancho Palos Verdes population, 2020 to 2024

Rancho Palos Verdes lost 2,069 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by -196. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 410th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Rancho Palos Verdes is 1.1 times that size.

Rancho Palos Verdes covers 13.47 square miles of land and 26.23 of water, for 2,974 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Rancho Palos Verdes is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rancho Palos Verdes is in

All of Rancho Palos Verdes's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Rancho Palos Verdes holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rancho Palos Verdes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rancho Palos Verdes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90275. 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 Palos Verdes is

The Census internal point of Rancho Palos Verdes is at 33.738500, -118.369700. Sacramento, the capital, is 376.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Torrance, CA (139,576 people), 6.4 miles away.

Daylight in Rancho Palos Verdes

At 33.74° N, Rancho Palos Verdes gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rancho Palos Verdes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Rolling Hills, 2.0 miles away, with 1,645 people.