Waterford, California

Waterford population, 2020 to 2024

Waterford added 134 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +6. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 103rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Waterford is 25% of it.

Waterford covers 2.36 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 3,928 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Waterford is close to the typical town.

What county Waterford is in

All of Waterford's residents live in Stanislaus County, which had 556,972 residents in 2024. Waterford holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waterford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waterford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95386. 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 Waterford is

The Census internal point of Waterford is at 37.642700, -120.754200. Sacramento, the capital, is 76.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakdale, CA (23,209 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Modesto, CA, 13.6 miles away.

Daylight in Waterford

At 37.64° N, Waterford gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waterford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Hughson, 6.7 miles away, with 7,903 people.