Vista, California

Vista population, 2020 to 2024

Vista added 489 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +291. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 144th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Vista is 2.7 times that size.

Vista covers 18.97 square miles of land, for 5,236 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Vista is denser than the typical town.

What county Vista is in

All of Vista's residents live in San Diego County, which had 3,298,799 residents in 2024. Vista holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Vista

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Vista by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92081, 92083, 92084. 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 Vista is

The Census internal point of Vista is at 33.189500, -117.238600. Sacramento, the capital, is 441.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oceanside, CA (170,941 people), 4.6 miles away.

Daylight in Vista

At 33.19° N, Vista gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Vista

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Oceanside, 4.6 miles away, with 170,941 people.