Tehachapi, California

Tehachapi population, 2020 to 2024

Tehachapi lost 1,902 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -14.6%. In the latest year it moved by +163. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 428th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Tehachapi is 30% of it.

Tehachapi covers 10.27 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,082 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Tehachapi is less dense than the typical town.

What county Tehachapi is in

All of Tehachapi's residents live in Kern County, which had 922,529 residents in 2024. Tehachapi holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tehachapi

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Tehachapi by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93561, 93581. 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 Tehachapi is

The Census internal point of Tehachapi is at 35.143000, -118.446000. Sacramento, the capital, is 291.0 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Arvin, CA (19,661 people), 22.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lancaster, CA, 34.6 miles away.

Daylight in Tehachapi

At 35.14° N, Tehachapi 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 Tehachapi

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Arvin, 22.0 miles away, with 19,661 people.