Sacramento, California

Sacramento population, 2020 to 2024

Sacramento added 10,219 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +6,006. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 92nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Sacramento is 14.5 times that size.

Sacramento covers 98.65 square miles of land and 2.09 of water, for 5,431 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Sacramento is denser than the typical town.

What county Sacramento is in

All of Sacramento's residents live in Sacramento County, which had 1,611,231 residents in 2024. Sacramento holds 33.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sacramento

21 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sacramento by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95811, 95814, 95815, 95816, 95817, 95818, 95819, 95820, 95821, 95822, 95823, 95824, 95825, 95826, 95828, 95831, 95832, 95833, 95834, 95835, 95838. 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 Sacramento is

The Census internal point of Sacramento is at 38.567700, -121.468200. Sacramento, the capital, is 1.5 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Jose, CA (997,368 people), 89.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elk Grove, CA, 11.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Sacramento

At 38.57° N, Sacramento gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 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 Sacramento daylight page.

Places near Sacramento

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is West Sacramento, 4.4 miles away, with 55,991 people.