Redding, California

Redding population, 2020 to 2024

Redding lost 297 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +489. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 171st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Redding is 2.5 times that size.

Redding covers 59.47 square miles of land and 1.51 of water, for 1,572 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Redding is less dense than the typical town.

What county Redding is in

All of Redding's residents live in Shasta County, which had 181,121 residents in 2024. Redding holds 51.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Redding

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Redding by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 96001, 96002, 96003. 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 Redding is

The Census internal point of Redding is at 40.570300, -122.366800. Sacramento, the capital, is 145.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chico, CA (102,911 people), 63.1 miles away.

Daylight in Redding

At 40.57° N, Redding gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Redding

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Shasta Lake, 7.4 miles away, with 10,244 people.