Watsonville, California

Watsonville population, 2020 to 2024

Watsonville lost 1,151 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +100. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 292nd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Watsonville is 1.4 times that size.

Watsonville covers 6.79 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 7,558 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Watsonville is denser than the typical town.

What county Watsonville is in

All of Watsonville's residents live in Santa Cruz County, which had 262,406 residents in 2024. Watsonville holds 19.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Watsonville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Watsonville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95019, 95076. 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 Watsonville is

The Census internal point of Watsonville is at 36.923600, -121.772400. Sacramento, the capital, is 115.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gilroy, CA (60,390 people), 11.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salinas, CA, 17.8 miles away.

Daylight in Watsonville

At 36.92° N, Watsonville gets about 14 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Watsonville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Capitola, 10.7 miles away, with 9,503 people.