Soledad, California

Soledad population, 2020 to 2024

Soledad lost 347 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +93. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 232nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Soledad is 71% of it.

Soledad covers 4.46 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 5,907 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Soledad is denser than the typical town.

What county Soledad is in

All of Soledad's residents live in Monterey County, which had 436,251 residents in 2024. Soledad holds 6.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Soledad

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Soledad by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93960. 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 Soledad is

The Census internal point of Soledad is at 36.434500, -121.317800. Sacramento, the capital, is 148.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Salinas, CA (160,783 people), 24.9 miles away.

Daylight in Soledad

At 36.43° N, Soledad gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Soledad

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Gonzales, 8.5 miles away, with 8,431 people.