Yreka, California

Yreka population, 2020 to 2024

Yreka lost 119 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -83. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 248th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Yreka is 21% of it.

Yreka covers 9.98 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 770 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Yreka is less dense than the typical town.

What county Yreka is in

All of Yreka's residents live in Siskiyou County, which had 42,498 residents in 2024. Yreka holds 18.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Yreka

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Yreka by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 96097. 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 Yreka is

The Census internal point of Yreka is at 41.724000, -122.631600. Sacramento, the capital, is 225.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ashland, OR (20,935 people), 32.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chico, CA, 142.3 miles away.

Daylight in Yreka

At 41.72° N, Yreka gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Yreka

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Montague, 5.2 miles away, with 1,170 people.