California Counties (GeoWorld)

County Basics

The tables below feature information about every in . (Note: Louisiana is divided into parishes, Alaska into boroughs.) The first table lists each ’s name, the seat, area in square miles, area in square kilometers (km), population density (number of people per square mile), density per square kilometer (km) and population. County (or parish, borough) seats that also serve as state capitals are highlighted in yellow. The second table focuses on race.

You can see this information for all fifty states at Reference > North America > USA > Counties. Also, see the Counties home page.

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Name	Seat	Area	(km)	Density	(km)	Pop(2000)	Pop(1990)
Alameda	Oakland	738	1,910	1,735	670	1,443,741	1,279,182
Alpine	Markleeville	739	1,913	2	1	1,208	1,113
Amador	Jackson	593	1,535	51	20	35,100	30,039
Butte	Oroville	1,640	4,247	111	43	203,171	182,120
Calaveras	San Andreas	1,020	2,642	31	12	40,554	31,998
Colusa	Colusa	1,151	2,981	14	6	18,804	16,275
Contra Costa	Martinez	720	1,866	1,116	431	948,816	803,732
Del Norte	Crescent City	1,008	2,610	23	9	27,507	23,460
El Dorado	Placerville	1,712	4,433	74	28	156,299	125,995
Fresno	Fresno	5,963	15,445	112	43	799,407	667,490
Glenn	Willows	1,315	3,406	19	7	26,453	24,798
Humboldt	Eureka	3,573	9,254	33	13	126,518	119,118
Imperial	El Centro	4,175	10,813	26	10	142,361	109,303
Inyo	Independence	10,192	26,398	2	1	17,945	18,281
Kern	Bakersfield	8,142	21,087	67	26	661,645	543,477
Kings	Hanford	1,390	3,599	73	28	129,461	101,469
Lake	Lakeport	1,259	3,259	40	16	58,309	50,631
Lassen	Susanville	4,558	11,804	6	2	33,828	27,598
Los Angeles	Los Angeles	4,060	10,515	2,183	843	9,519,338	8,863,164
Madera	Madera	2,138	5,539	41	16	123,109	88,090
Marin	San Rafael	520	1,346	443	171	247,289	230,096
Mariposa	Mariposa	1,451	3,759	10	4	17,130	14,302
Mendocino	Ukiah	3,509	9,089	23	9	86,265	80,345
Merced	Merced	1,929	4,996	93	36	210,554	178,403
Modoc	Alturas	3,944	10,216	3	1	9,449	9,678
Mono	Bridgeport	3,045	7,885	3	1	12,853	9,956
Monterey	Salinas	3,322	8,604	107	41	401,762	355,660
Napa	Napa	754	1,953	147	57	124,279	110,765
Nevada	Nevada City	958	2,480	82	32	92,033	78,510
Orange	Santa Ana	790	2,045	3,053	1,179	2,846,289	2,410,556
Placer	Auburn	1,404	3,637	123	48	248,399	172,796
Plumas	Quincy	2,554	6,615	8	3	20,824	19,739
Riverside	Riverside	7,208	18,669	162	63	1,545,387	1,170,413
Sacramento	Sacramento	966	2,501	1,078	416	1,223,499	1,041,219
Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	2,739	7,093	135	52	399,347	369,608
Santa Clara	San Jose	1,291	3,344	1,160	448	1,682,585	1,497,577
Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz	446	1,154	516	199	255,602	229,734
San Benito	Hollister	1,389	3,598	26	10	53,234	36,697
San Bernardino	San Bernardino	20,062	51,961	71	27	1,709,434	1,418,380
San Diego	San Diego	4,205	10,890	594	229	2,813,833	2,498,016
San Francisco	San Francisco	47	121	15,502	5,985	776,733	723,959
San Joaquin	Stockton	1,399	3,624	344	133	563,598	480,628
San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo	3,305	8,559	66	25	246,681	217,162
San Mateo	Redwood City	449	1,163	1,447	559	707,161	649,623
Shasta	Redding	3,786	9,805	39	15	163,256	147,036
Sierra	Downieville	953	2,469	4	1	3,555	3,318
Siskiyou	Yreka	6,287	16,284	7	3	44,301	43,531
Solano	Fairfield	828	2,145	411	159	394,542	340,421
Sonoma	Santa Rosa	1,576	4,082	246	95	458,614	388,222
Stanislaus	Modesto	1,495	3,871	248	96	446,997	370,522
Sutter	Yuba City	603	1,561	107	41	78,930	64,415
Tehama	Red Bluff	2,951	7,643	17	7	56,039	49,625
Trinity	Weaverville	3,179	8,233	4	2	13,022	13,063
Tulare	Visalia	4,824	12,495	65	25	368,021	311,921
Tuolumne	Sonora	2,236	5,790	22	8	54,501	48,456
Ventura	Ventura	1,846	4,781	362	140	753,197	669,016
Yolo	Woodland	1,012	2,622	139	54	168,660	141,092
Yuba	Marysville	631	1,633	92	36	60,219	58,228

(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

Race

The table below lists the population of various ethnic and cultural groups in : Native American (American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut), white (Caucasian), black (African American), Asian American, Pacific Islander, “Some Other Race,” people whose ancestry includes two or more races, and Hispanic.

County	Native	White	Black	Asian	PI	Other	Race2	Hisp
Alameda	9,146	704,334	215,598	295,218	9,142	129,079	81,224	273,910
Alpine	228	890	7	4	1	17	61	94
Amador	626	30,113	1,359	350	36	1,769	847	3,126
Butte	3,866	171,728	2,816	6,752	296	9,790	7,923	21,339
Calaveras	705	36,982	304	345	38	839	1,341	2,765
Colusa	439	12,090	103	228	74	5,017	853	8,752
Contra Costa	5,830	621,490	88,813	103,993	3,466	76,510	48,714	167,776
Del Norte	1,770	21,693	1,184	637	23	1,079	1,121	3,829
El Dorado	1,566	140,209	813	3,328	209	5,547	4,627	14,566
Fresno	12,790	434,045	42,337	64,362	1,000	207,061	37,812	351,636
Glenn	552	18,988	155	893	35	4,810	1,020	7,840
Humboldt	7,241	107,179	1,111	2,091	241	3,099	5,556	8,210
Imperial	2,666	70,290	5,624	2,836	119	55,634	5,192	102,817
Inyo	1,802	14,367	29	163	15	825	744	2,257
Kern	9,999	407,581	39,798	22,268	972	153,610	27,417	254,036
Kings	2,178	69,492	10,747	3,980	250	36,611	6,203	56,461
Lake	1,772	50,289	1,233	482	93	2,398	2,042	6,639
Lassen	1,104	27,336	2,992	249	146	1,092	909	4,681
Los Angeles	76,988	4,637,062	930,957	1,137,500	27,053	2,239,997	469,781	4,242,213
Madera	3,212	76,612	5,072	1,566	210	29,979	6,458	54,515
Marin	1,061	207,800	7,142	11,203	388	11,116	8,579	27,351
Mariposa	602	15,234	114	122	22	457	579	1,329
Mendocino	4,103	69,671	536	1,038	126	7,427	3,364	14,213
Merced	2,510	118,350	8,064	14,321	396	55,013	11,900	95,466
Modoc	398	8,120	65	58	7	538	263	1,088
Mono	309	10,818	61	143	11	1,222	289	2,274
Monterey	4,202	224,682	15,050	24,245	1,789	111,782	20,012	187,969
Napa	1,045	99,396	1,645	3,694	289	13,604	4,606	29,416
Nevada	814	85,948	259	715	81	1,782	2,434	5,201
Orange	19,906	1,844,652	47,649	386,785	8,938	421,208	117,151	875,579
Placer	2,199	220,053	2,031	7,317	386	8,432	7,981	24,019
Plumas	530	19,113	130	110	20	377	544	1,177
Riverside	18,168	1,013,478	96,421	56,954	3,902	288,868	67,596	559,575
Sacramento	13,359	783,240	121,804	134,899	7,264	91,541	71,392	195,890
Santa Barbara	4,784	290,418	9,195	16,344	700	60,683	17,223	136,668
Santa Clara	11,350	905,660	47,182	430,095	5,773	204,088	78,437	403,401
Santa Cruz	2,461	191,931	2,477	8,789	382	38,391	11,171	68,486
San Benito	616	34,695	573	1,277	99	13,237	2,737	25,516
San Bernardino	19,915	1,006,960	155,348	80,217	5,110	355,843	86,041	669,387
San Diego	24,337	1,871,839	161,480	249,802	13,561	360,847	131,967	750,965
San Francisco	3,458	385,728	60,515	239,565	3,844	50,368	33,255	109,504
San Joaquin	6,377	327,607	37,689	64,283	1,955	91,613	34,074	172,073
San Luis Obispo	2,335	208,699	5,002	6,568	286	15,312	8,479	40,196
San Mateo	3,140	420,683	24,840	141,684	9,403	71,910	35,501	154,708
Shasta	4,528	145,826	1,225	3,048	178	2,790	5,661	8,998
Sierra	67	3,348	7	6	3	37	87	213
Siskiyou	1,726	38,573	580	526	57	1,224	1,615	3,354
Solano	3,110	222,387	58,827	50,299	3,078	31,612	25,229	69,598
Sonoma	5,389	374,209	6,522	14,098	934	38,717	18,745	79,511
Stanislaus	5,676	309,901	11,521	18,848	1,529	75,187	24,335	141,871
Sutter	1,225	53,291	1,509	8,884	161	10,232	3,628	17,529
Tehama	1,178	47,518	318	440	55	4,631	1,899	8,871
Trinity	631	11,573	58	61	15	114	570	517
Tulare	5,737	213,751	5,852	12,018	408	113,317	16,938	186,846
Tuolumne	992	48,750	1,146	395	91	1,577	1,550	4,445
Ventura	7,106	526,721	14,664	40,284	1,671	133,178	29,573	251,734
Yolo	1,953	114,129	3,425	16,614	507	23,214	8,818	43,707
Yuba	1,569	42,537	1,904	4,519	123	5,989	3,578	10,449

(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

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