California · Census place 0659587
Rancho Santa Margarita, California
Rancho Santa Margarita is a city in Orange County, California with an estimated 46,353 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 191st largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 46,353
- #191 of 468 in California
- Change since 2020
- -3.2%
- -1,515 people
- Land area
- 12.9 sq mi
- + 0.05 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,585 / sq mi
- State median 3,725
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Rancho Santa Margarita population, 2020 to 2024
Rancho Santa Margarita lost 1,515 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -109. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 340th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Rancho Santa Margarita is 1.3 times that size.
Rancho Santa Margarita covers 12.93 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 3,585 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Rancho Santa Margarita is close to the typical town.
What county Rancho Santa Margarita is in
All of Rancho Santa Margarita's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Rancho Santa Margarita 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 Rancho Santa Margarita
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rancho Santa Margarita by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92679, 92688. 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 Santa Margarita is
The Census internal point of Rancho Santa Margarita is at 33.632300, -117.599000. Sacramento, the capital, is 404.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mission Viejo, CA (91,601 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Irvine, CA, 10.4 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 33.632300, -117.599000
- DMS
- 33°37'56.28"N 117°35'56.40"W
- UTM
- 11N 444446.1E 3721548.2N
- Geohash
- 9mur7fx42
- Plus code
- 8554JCJ2+WC
Daylight in Rancho Santa Margarita
At 33.63° N, Rancho Santa Margarita gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Rancho Santa Margarita
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Mission Viejo, 3.7 miles away, with 91,601 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA?
46,353 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 1,515 (3.2%) from 47,868 in July 2020.
What county is Rancho Santa Margarita in?
Orange County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Rancho Santa Margarita?
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 92679, 92688.
How far is Rancho Santa Margarita from Sacramento?
404.9 miles (651.6 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Rancho Santa Margarita.
What is the nearest larger city to Rancho Santa Margarita?
Mission Viejo, CA, with 91,601 residents, 3.7 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.