Salinas, California

Salinas population, 2020 to 2024

Salinas lost 2,610 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +235. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 257th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Salinas is 4.3 times that size.

Salinas covers 23.52 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 6,836 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Salinas is denser than the typical town.

What county Salinas is in

All of Salinas's residents live in Monterey County, which had 436,251 residents in 2024. Salinas holds 36.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salinas

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Salinas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93901, 93905, 93906. 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 Salinas is

The Census internal point of Salinas is at 36.690200, -121.633800. Sacramento, the capital, is 130.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Jose, CA (997,368 people), 43.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Salinas

At 36.69° N, Salinas gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 02 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 Salinas daylight page.

Places near Salinas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Marina, 8.6 miles away, with 23,047 people.