Sonora, California

Sonora population, 2020 to 2024

Sonora lost 144 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +9.

Sonora covers 3.16 square miles of land, for 1,536 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Sonora is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sonora is in

All of Sonora's residents live in Tuolumne County, which had 53,893 residents in 2024. Sonora holds 9.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sonora

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sonora by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95370. 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 Sonora is

The Census internal point of Sonora is at 37.981700, -120.382800. Sacramento, the capital, is 73.0 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakdale, CA (23,209 people), 29.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Modesto, CA, 41.4 miles away.

Daylight in Sonora

At 37.98° N, Sonora gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sonora

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Angels, 11.1 miles away, with 3,728 people.