California · Census place 0669088
Santa Clarita, California
Santa Clarita is a city in Los Angeles County, California with an estimated 229,159 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 16th largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 229,159
- #16 of 468 in California
- Change since 2020
- -1.4%
- -3,263 people
- Land area
- 73.6 sq mi
- + 0.06 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,113 / sq mi
- State median 3,725
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Santa Clarita population, 2020 to 2024
Santa Clarita lost 3,263 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -643. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 244th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Santa Clarita is 6.2 times that size.
Santa Clarita covers 73.62 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 3,113 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Santa Clarita is less dense than the typical town.
What county Santa Clarita is in
All of Santa Clarita's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Santa Clarita holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Santa Clarita
6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Santa Clarita by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 91321, 91350, 91351, 91354, 91355, 91387. 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 Clarita is
The Census internal point of Santa Clarita is at 34.416500, -118.500700. Sacramento, the capital, is 332.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Angeles, CA (3,878,704 people), 27.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Simi Valley, CA, 17.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 400 m (1,312 ft) above sea level.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 34.416500, -118.500700
- DMS
- 34°24'59.40"N 118°30'2.52"W
- UTM
- 11N 362087.9E 3809359.2N
- Geohash
- 9q5ez3q6t
- Plus code
- 8563CF8X+JP
- Time zone
- America/Los_Angeles
Daylight in Santa Clarita
At 34.42° N, Santa Clarita gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 36 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 Clarita daylight page.
Places near Santa Clarita
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is San Fernando, 9.6 miles away, with 23,488 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Santa Clarita, CA?
229,159 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 3,263 (1.4%) from 232,422 in July 2020.
What county is Santa Clarita in?
Los Angeles County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Santa Clarita?
6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 91321, 91350, 91351, 91354, 91355, 91387.
How far is Santa Clarita from Sacramento?
332.0 miles (534.3 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Santa Clarita.
What is the nearest larger city to Santa Clarita?
Los Angeles, CA, with 3,878,704 residents, 27.9 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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