California · Census place 0672016

Simi Valley, California

Simi Valley is a city in Ventura County, California with an estimated 125,778 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 48th largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
125,778
#48 of 468 in California
Change since 2020
-0.5%
-569 people
Land area
41.6 sq mi
+ 0.70 sq mi water
Density
3,027 / sq mi
State median 3,725
Orange pin: Simi Valley. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Sacramento.

Simi Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Simi Valley lost 569 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +507. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 181st; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Simi Valley is 3.4 times that size.

126.3k2020125.8k2021125.1k2022125.3k2023125.8k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 126,369. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Simi Valley covers 41.55 square miles of land and 0.70 of water, for 3,027 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Simi Valley is less dense than the typical town.

What county Simi Valley is in

All of Simi Valley's residents live in Ventura County, which had 835,427 residents in 2024. Simi Valley holds 15.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Simi Valley

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Simi Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93063, 93065. 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 Simi Valley is

The Census internal point of Simi Valley is at 34.266900, -118.748500. Sacramento, the capital, is 334.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Santa Clarita, CA (229,159 people), 17.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Thousand Oaks, CA, 8.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 269 m (883 ft) above sea level.

Internal point

Decimal
34.266900, -118.748500
DMS
34°16'0.84"N 118°44'54.60"W
UTM
11N 339027.4E 3793133.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
85637782+QH
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles

Daylight in Simi Valley

At 34.27° N, Simi Valley gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 35 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 Simi Valley daylight page.

Places near Simi Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Moorpark, 7.5 miles away, with 35,621 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Simi Valley, CA?

125,778 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 569 (0.5%) from 126,347 in July 2020.

What county is Simi Valley in?

Ventura County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Simi Valley?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 93063, 93065.

How far is Simi Valley from Sacramento?

334.6 miles (538.5 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Simi Valley.

What is the nearest larger city to Simi Valley?

Santa Clarita, CA, with 229,159 residents, 17.5 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
  5. 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)

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