Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara population, 2020 to 2024

Santa Clara added 4,526 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1,644. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 65th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Santa Clara is 3.6 times that size.

Santa Clara covers 18.28 square miles of land, for 7,283 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Santa Clara is denser than the typical town.

What county Santa Clara is in

All of Santa Clara's residents live in Santa Clara County, which had 1,926,325 residents in 2024. Santa Clara holds 6.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Santa Clara

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Santa Clara by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95050, 95051, 95053, 95054. 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 Clara is

The Census internal point of Santa Clara is at 37.364600, -121.968000. Sacramento, the capital, is 87.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sunnyvale, CA (156,792 people), 3.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Santa Clara

At 37.36° N, Santa Clara gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 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 Santa Clara daylight page.

Places near Santa Clara

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Sunnyvale, 3.5 miles away, with 156,792 people.