California · Census place 0661026

Ripon, California

Ripon is a city in San Joaquin County, California with an estimated 16,252 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 322nd largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
16,252
#322 of 468 in California
Change since 2020
+0.8%
+131 people
Land area
5.4 sq mi
+ 0.19 sq mi water
Density
3,038 / sq mi
State median 3,725
Orange pin: Ripon. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Sacramento.

Ripon population, 2020 to 2024

Ripon added 131 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +62. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 136th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Ripon is 44% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 16,024. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Ripon covers 5.35 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 3,038 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Ripon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ripon is in

All of Ripon's residents live in San Joaquin County, which had 816,108 residents in 2024. Ripon holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ripon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ripon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95366. 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 Ripon is

The Census internal point of Ripon is at 37.742000, -121.130400. Sacramento, the capital, is 61.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Manteca, CA (94,292 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Modesto, CA, 10.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
37.742000, -121.130400
DMS
37°44'31.20"N 121°07'49.44"W
UTM
10N 664726.7E 4178835.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
849WPVR9+QR

Daylight in Ripon

At 37.74° N, Ripon gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ripon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Manteca, 6.4 miles away, with 94,292 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Ripon, CA?

16,252 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 131 (0.8%) from 16,121 in July 2020.

What county is Ripon in?

San Joaquin County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Ripon?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 95366.

How far is Ripon from Sacramento?

61.0 miles (98.1 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Ripon.

What is the nearest larger city to Ripon?

Manteca, CA, with 94,292 residents, 6.4 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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