Shasta Lake, California

Shasta Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Shasta Lake lost 115 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by -12. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 221st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Shasta Lake is 28% of it.

Shasta Lake covers 10.90 square miles of land, for 940 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Shasta Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shasta Lake is in

All of Shasta Lake's residents live in Shasta County, which had 181,121 residents in 2024. Shasta Lake holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shasta Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shasta Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 96019. 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 Shasta Lake is

The Census internal point of Shasta Lake is at 40.676600, -122.380900. Sacramento, the capital, is 152.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Redding, CA (93,502 people), 7.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chico, CA, 70.0 miles away.

Daylight in Shasta Lake

At 40.68° N, Shasta Lake gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shasta Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Redding, 7.4 miles away, with 93,502 people.