Selma, California

Selma population, 2020 to 2024

Selma lost 264 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by -78. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 215th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Selma is 66% of it.

Selma covers 5.94 square miles of land, for 4,125 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Selma is denser than the typical town.

What county Selma is in

All of Selma's residents live in Fresno County, which had 1,024,125 residents in 2024. Selma holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Selma

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Selma by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93662. 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 Selma is

The Census internal point of Selma is at 36.571800, -119.614000. Sacramento, the capital, is 172.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Reedley, CA (26,138 people), 9.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fresno, CA, 17.6 miles away.

Daylight in Selma

At 36.57° N, Selma gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Selma

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Kingsburg, 4.2 miles away, with 13,128 people.