Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica population, 2020 to 2024

Santa Monica lost 2,190 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +294. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 299th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Santa Monica is 2.4 times that size.

Santa Monica covers 8.41 square miles of land and 8.76 of water, for 10,788 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Santa Monica is denser than the typical town.

What county Santa Monica is in

All of Santa Monica's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Santa Monica holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Santa Monica

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Santa Monica by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90401, 90402, 90403, 90404, 90405. 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 Monica is

The Census internal point of Santa Monica is at 34.010900, -118.498200. Sacramento, the capital, is 356.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Angeles, CA (3,878,704 people), 5.0 miles away.

Daylight in Santa Monica

At 34.01° N, Santa Monica gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Santa Monica

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Los Angeles, 5.0 miles away, with 3,878,704 people.