Williams, California

Williams population, 2020 to 2024

Williams added 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by -16. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 129th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Williams is 15% of it.

Williams covers 4.95 square miles of land, for 1,131 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Williams is less dense than the typical town.

What county Williams is in

All of Williams's residents live in Colusa County, which had 22,074 residents in 2024. Williams holds 25.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Williams

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Williams by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95987. 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 Williams is

The Census internal point of Williams is at 39.149800, -122.139000. Sacramento, the capital, is 52.6 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Colusa, CA (6,589 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chico, CA, 45.4 miles away.

Daylight in Williams

At 39.15° N, Williams gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Williams

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Colusa, 7.8 miles away, with 6,589 people.