Scotts Valley, California

Scotts Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Scotts Valley lost 395 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -81. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 343rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Scotts Valley is 32% of it.

Scotts Valley covers 4.62 square miles of land, for 2,560 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Scotts Valley is less dense than the typical town.

What county Scotts Valley is in

All of Scotts Valley's residents live in Santa Cruz County, which had 262,406 residents in 2024. Scotts Valley holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Scotts Valley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Scotts Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95066. 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 Scotts Valley is

The Census internal point of Scotts Valley is at 37.055500, -122.011800. Sacramento, the capital, is 108.9 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Santa Cruz, CA (62,581 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is San Jose, CA, 19.8 miles away.

Daylight in Scotts Valley

At 37.06° N, Scotts Valley gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Scotts Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Santa Cruz, 5.8 miles away, with 62,581 people.