Ridgecrest, California

Ridgecrest population, 2020 to 2024

Ridgecrest added 379 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +161. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 112th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Ridgecrest is 77% of it.

Ridgecrest covers 20.86 square miles of land and 0.65 of water, for 1,360 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Ridgecrest is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ridgecrest is in

All of Ridgecrest's residents live in Kern County, which had 922,529 residents in 2024. Ridgecrest holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ridgecrest

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ridgecrest by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93555. 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 Ridgecrest is

The Census internal point of Ridgecrest is at 35.628500, -117.664000. Sacramento, the capital, is 293.3 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lancaster, CA (167,426 people), 70.8 miles away.

Daylight in Ridgecrest

At 35.63° N, Ridgecrest gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ridgecrest

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is California City, 35.2 miles away, with 13,174 people.