Richmond, California

Richmond population, 2020 to 2024

Richmond lost 824 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +488. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 197th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Richmond is 3.1 times that size.

Richmond covers 30.04 square miles of land and 22.47 of water, for 3,840 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Richmond is close to the typical town.

What county Richmond is in

All of Richmond's residents live in Contra Costa County, which had 1,172,607 residents in 2024. Richmond holds 9.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Richmond

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Richmond by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94530, 94801, 94803, 94804, 94805, 94806. 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 Richmond is

The Census internal point of Richmond is at 37.952300, -122.360600. Sacramento, the capital, is 63.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Berkeley, CA (121,749 people), 6.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Richmond

At 37.95° N, Richmond gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Richmond daylight page.

Places near Richmond

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is San Pablo, 1.2 miles away, with 31,562 people.