San Bruno, California

San Bruno population, 2020 to 2024

San Bruno lost 1,715 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +308. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 366th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so San Bruno is 1.1 times that size.

San Bruno covers 5.49 square miles of land, for 7,657 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so San Bruno is denser than the typical town.

What county San Bruno is in

All of San Bruno's residents live in San Mateo County, which had 742,893 residents in 2024. San Bruno holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in San Bruno

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps San Bruno by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 94066. 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 San Bruno is

The Census internal point of San Bruno is at 37.625600, -122.431400. Sacramento, the capital, is 83.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South San Francisco, CA (64,660 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Daly City, CA, 5.6 miles away.

Daylight in San Bruno

At 37.63° N, San Bruno gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near San Bruno

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Millbrae, 2.4 miles away, with 23,321 people.