Taft, California

Taft population, 2020 to 2024

Taft lost 601 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -7.9%. In the latest year it moved by -1. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 425th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Taft is 19% of it.

Taft covers 15.27 square miles of land, for 458 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Taft is less dense than the typical town.

What county Taft is in

All of Taft's residents live in Kern County, which had 922,529 residents in 2024. Taft holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Taft

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Taft by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93268. 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 Taft is

The Census internal point of Taft is at 35.126700, -119.424200. Sacramento, the capital, is 264.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bakersfield, CA (417,468 people), 26.8 miles away.

Daylight in Taft

At 35.13° N, Taft gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Taft

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Maricopa, 5.3 miles away, with 1,012 people.