California · Census place 0669000
Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana is a city in Orange County, California with an estimated 316,184 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 14th largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 316,184
- #14 of 468 in California
- Change since 2020
- +1.6%
- +4,958 people
- Land area
- 27.4 sq mi
- + 0.03 sq mi water
- Density
- 11,548 / sq mi
- State median 3,725
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Santa Ana population, 2020 to 2024
Santa Ana added 4,958 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +3,542. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 102nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Santa Ana is 8.5 times that size.
Santa Ana covers 27.38 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 11,548 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Santa Ana is denser than the typical town.
What county Santa Ana is in
All of Santa Ana's residents live in Orange County, which had 3,170,435 residents in 2024. Santa Ana holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Santa Ana
6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Santa Ana by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92701, 92703, 92704, 92705, 92706, 92707. 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 Santa Ana is
The Census internal point of Santa Ana is at 33.736300, -117.882900. Sacramento, the capital, is 390.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Irvine, CA (318,683 people), 7.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Orange, CA, 3.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 25 m (82 ft) above sea level.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 33.736300, -117.882900
- DMS
- 33°44'10.68"N 117°52'58.44"W
- UTM
- 11N 418213.8E 3733268.1N
- Geohash
- 9mupvt821
- Plus code
- 8554P4P8+GR
- Time zone
- America/Los_Angeles
Daylight in Santa Ana
At 33.74° N, Santa Ana gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 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 Santa Ana daylight page.
Places near Santa Ana
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Orange, 3.7 miles away, with 137,941 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Santa Ana, CA?
316,184 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 4,958 (1.6%) from 311,226 in July 2020.
What county is Santa Ana in?
Orange County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Santa Ana?
6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 92701, 92703, 92704, 92705, 92706, 92707.
How far is Santa Ana from Sacramento?
390.4 miles (628.2 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Santa Ana.
What is the nearest larger city to Santa Ana?
Irvine, CA, with 318,683 residents, 7.6 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
- 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)
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