San Jose, California

San Jose population, 2020 to 2024

San Jose lost 12,318 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +13,634. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 228th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so San Jose is 26.9 times that size.

San Jose covers 177.94 square miles of land and 3.12 of water, for 5,605 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so San Jose is denser than the typical town.

What county San Jose is in

All of San Jose's residents live in Santa Clara County, which had 1,926,325 residents in 2024. San Jose holds 51.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in San Jose

31 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap San Jose by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95002, 95008, 95013, 95037, 95110, 95111, 95112, 95113, 95116, 95117, 95118, 95119, 95120, 95121, 95122, 95123, 95124, 95125, 95126, 95127, 95128, 95129, 95130, 95131, 95132, 95133, 95134, 95136, 95138, 95139, 95148. 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 Jose is

The Census internal point of San Jose is at 37.296000, -121.814600. Sacramento, the capital, is 90.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Angeles, CA (3,878,704 people), 296.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Santa Clara, CA, 9.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 50 m (164 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in San Jose

At 37.30° N, San Jose gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 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 San Jose daylight page.

Places near San Jose

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Campbell, 7.7 miles away, with 42,895 people.