San Juan Capistrano, California

San Juan Capistrano population, 2020 to 2024

San Juan Capistrano added 310 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +438. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 131st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so San Juan Capistrano is 96% of it.

San Juan Capistrano covers 14.43 square miles of land, for 2,458 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so San Juan Capistrano is less dense than the typical town.

What county San Juan Capistrano is in

All of San Juan Capistrano's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. San Juan Capistrano holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in San Juan Capistrano

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps San Juan Capistrano by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92675. 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 Juan Capistrano is

The Census internal point of San Juan Capistrano is at 33.500900, -117.654400. Sacramento, the capital, is 411.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Laguna Niguel, CA (64,185 people), 3.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Irvine, CA, 14.0 miles away.

Daylight in San Juan Capistrano

At 33.50° N, San Juan Capistrano gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near San Juan Capistrano

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Dana Point, 2.8 miles away, with 32,585 people.