This is a list of urban areas in California as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations. The list includes urban areas with a population of at least 10,000. Rows in green indicate that part of the area lies outside of California. Rows without a rank indicate that the center of the area is outside of California.
thumb|right|200px|1 - Los Angeles
thumb|right|200px|2 - San Francisco
thumb|right|200px|3 - San Diego
thumb|right|200px|4 - San Bernardino
thumb|right|200px|5 - Sacramento
thumb|right|200px|6 - San Jose
thumb|right|200px|7 - Fresno
thumb|right|200px|8 - Concord
thumb|right|200px|9 - Mission Viejo
thumb|right|200px|10 - Bakersfield
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|- style="text-align:center;"
!Rank
!Name
!Population<br><small>(2020 census)</small>
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| 1 || style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim || 12,237,376
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| 2 || style="text-align:left;"| San Francisco-Oakland || 3,515,933
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| 3 || style="text-align:left;"| San Diego || 3,070,300
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| 4 || style="text-align:left;"| Riverside-San Bernardino || 2,276,703
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| 5 || style="text-align:left;"| Sacramento || 1,946,618
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| 6 || style="text-align:left;"| San Jose || 1,837,446
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| 7 || style="text-align:left;"| Fresno || 717,589
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| 8 || style="text-align:left;"| Mission Viejo-Lake Forest-Laguna Niguel || 646,843
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| 9 || style="text-align:left;"| Bakersfield || 570,235
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| 10 || style="text-align:left;"| Concord-Walnut Creek || 538,583
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| 11 || style="text-align:left;"| Temecula-Murrieta-Menifee || 528,991
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| <span style="color:green;">-</span> || style="text-align:left;"| <span style="color:green;">Reno, NV-CA</span> || <span style="color:green;">446,529</span>
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| 12 || style="text-align:left;"| Stockton || 414,847
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| 13 || style="text-align:left;"| Oxnard-Ventura || 376,117
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| 14 || style="text-align:left;"| Indio-Palm Desert-Palm Springs || 361,075
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| 15 || style="text-align:left;"| Palmdale-Lancaster || 359,559
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| 16 || style="text-align:left;"| Modesto || 357,301
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| 17 || style="text-align:left;"| Victorville-Hesperia-Apple Valley || 355,816
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| 18 || style="text-align:left;"| Antioch || 326,205
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| 19 || style="text-align:left;"| Santa Rosa || 297,329
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| 20 || style="text-align:left;"| Santa Clarita || 278,031
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| 21 || style="text-align:left;"| Livermore-Pleasanton-Dublin || 240,381
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| 22 || style="text-align:left;"| Thousand Oaks || 213,986
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| 23 || style="text-align:left;"| Santa Barbara || 202,197
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| 24 || style="text-align:left;"| Salinas || 177,532
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| 25 || style="text-align:left;"| Vallejo || 175,132
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| 26 || style="text-align:left;"| Hemet || 173,194
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| 27 || style="text-align:left;"| Santa Cruz || 169,038
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| 28 || style="text-align:left;"| Visalia || 160,578
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| 29 || style="text-align:left;"| Fairfield || 150,122
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| 30 || style="text-align:left;"| Merced || 150,052
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| 31 || style="text-align:left;"| Santa Maria || 143,609
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| <span style="color:green;">-</span> || style="text-align:left;"| <span style="color:green;">Yuma, AZ-CA</span> || <span style="color:green;">135,717</span>
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| 32 || style="text-align:left;"| Simi Valley || 127,364
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| 33 || style="text-align:left;"| Yuba City || 125,706
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| 34 || style="text-align:left;"| Seaside-Monterey-Pacific Grove || 123,495
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| 35 || style="text-align:left;"| Tracy-Mountain House || 120,912
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| 36 || style="text-align:left;"| Redding || 120,602
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| 37 || style="text-align:left;"| Gilroy-Morgan Hill || 114,833
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| 38 || style="text-align:left;"| Chico || 111,411
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| 39 || style="text-align:left;"| Vacaville || 101,027
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| 40 || style="text-align:left;"| Manteca || 86,674
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| 41 || style="text-align:left;"| Napa || 84,619
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| 42 || style="text-align:left;"| Madera || 81,635
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| 43 || style="text-align:left;"| Turlock || 79,203
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| 44 || style="text-align:left;"| Davis || 77,034
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| 45 || style="text-align:left;"| Camarillo || 76,338
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| 46 || style="text-align:left;"| El Centro || 74,376
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| 47 || style="text-align:left;"| Lodi || 73,090
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| 48 || style="text-align:left;"| Tulare || 70,628
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| 49 || style="text-align:left;"| Porterville || 69,862
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| 50 || style="text-align:left;"| Watsonville || 68,668
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| 51 || style="text-align:left;"| Paso Robles-Atascadero || 67,804
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| 52 || style="text-align:left;"| Hanford || 66,638
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| 53 || style="text-align:left;"| Petaluma || 65,227
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| 54 || style="text-align:left;"| Woodland || 61,133
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| 55 || style="text-align:left;"| San Luis Obispo || 56,904
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| 56 || style="text-align:left;"| Lompoc || 54,287
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| 57 || style="text-align:left;"| Arroyo Grande-Grover Beach-Pismo Beach || 50,885
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| 58 || style="text-align:left;"| Reedley--Dinuba || 49,614
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| 59 || style="text-align:left;"| Hollister || 49,611
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| 60 || style="text-align:left;"| Eureka || 45,951
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| 61 || style="text-align:left;"| Desert Hot Springs || 45,767
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| 62 || style="text-align:left;"| Los Banos || 45,533
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| 63 || style="text-align:left;"| Delano || 44,410
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| 64 || style="text-align:left;"| Fallbrook || 41,305
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| 65 || style="text-align:left;"| Oroville || 40,190
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| 66 || style="text-align:left;"| Calexico || 38,491
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| 67 || style="text-align:left;"| Grass Valley || 36,720
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| 68 || style="text-align:left;"| Selma || 32,546
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| 69 || style="text-align:left;"| Sonoma || 31,479
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| 70 || style="text-align:left;"| Auburn || 31,371
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| <span style="color:green;">71</span> || style="text-align:left;"| <span style="color:green;">South Lake Tahoe, CA-NV</span> || <span style="color:green;">31,363</span>
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| 72 || style="text-align:left;"| Santa Paula || 30,675
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| 73 || style="text-align:left;"| Barstow || 30,522
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| 74 || style="text-align:left;"| Ridgecrest || 29,307
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| 75 || style="text-align:left;"| Sonora-Twain Harte || 29,013
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| 76 || style="text-align:left;"| Ukiah || 28,987
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| 77 || style="text-align:left;"| Sanger || 27,325
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| 78 || style="text-align:left;"| Lemoore || 26,957
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| 79 || style="text-align:left;"| Galt || 26,618
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| 80 || style="text-align:left;"| Brawley || 26,270
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| 81 || style="text-align:left;"| Oakdale || 25,408
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| 82 || style="text-align:left;"| Patterson || 23,660
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| 83 || style="text-align:left;"| Placerville-Diamond Springs || 23,291
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| 84 || style="text-align:left;"| Corcoran || 22,377
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| 85 || style="text-align:left;"| Crestline-Lake Arrowhead || 22,272
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| 86 || style="text-align:left;"| Wasco || 22,235
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| 87 || style="text-align:left;"| Half Moon Bay || 21,688
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| 88 || style="text-align:left;"| Nipomo || 20,303
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| 89 || style="text-align:left;"| Red Bluff || 19,826
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| 90 || style="text-align:left;"| Arcata || 19,714
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| <span style="color:green;">-</span> || style="text-align:left;"| <span style="color:green;">Incline Village, NV-CA</span> || <span style="color:green;">19,441</span>
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| 91 || style="text-align:left;"| Arvin || 19,385
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| 92 || style="text-align:left;"| Shafter || 19,278
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| 93 || style="text-align:left;"| Soledad || 18,946
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| 94 || style="text-align:left;"| Dixon || 18,876
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| 95 || style="text-align:left;"| Greenfield || 18,858
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| 96 || style="text-align:left;"| Sebastopol || 18,734
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| 97 || style="text-align:left;"| Yucca Valley || 18,293
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| 98 || style="text-align:left;"| Rosamond || 17,538
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| 99 || style="text-align:left;"| Clearlake || 17,351
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| 100 || style="text-align:left;"| Tehachapi-Golden Hills || 17,298
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| 101 || style="text-align:left;"| Big Bear City || 16,498
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| 102 || style="text-align:left;"| Fillmore || 16,397
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| 103 || style="text-align:left;"| Kerman || 16,002
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| 104 || style="text-align:left;"| Discovery Bay || 15,939
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| 105 || style="text-align:left;"| Ripon || 15,829
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| 106 || style="text-align:left;"| Crescent City || 15,620
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| 107 || style="text-align:left;"| Lamont || 15,271
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| 108 || style="text-align:left;"| Taft || 15,022
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| 109 || style="text-align:left;"| McKinleyville || 14,981
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| 110 || style="text-align:left;"| Ramona || 14,837
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| 111 || style="text-align:left;"| Parlier || 14,522
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| 112 || style="text-align:left;"| Livingston || 14,255
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| 113 || style="text-align:left;"| McFarland || 14,149
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| 114 || style="text-align:left;"| Los Osos || 13,978
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| 115 || style="text-align:left;"| Lindsay || 13,942
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| 116 || style="text-align:left;"| King City || 13,760
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| 117 || style="text-align:left;"| Mendota || 13,382
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| 118 || style="text-align:left;"| Alpine || 13,307
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| 119 || style="text-align:left;"| Avenal || 13,304
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| 120 || style="text-align:left;"| Chowchilla || 13,196
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| 121 || style="text-align:left;"| Morro Bay || 13,163
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| 122 || style="text-align:left;"| Coalinga || 13,049
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| 123 || style="text-align:left;"| Twentynine Palms || 12,881
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| 124 || style="text-align:left;"| Orosi || 12,795
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| 125 || style="text-align:left;"| Fortuna || 12,784
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| 126 || style="text-align:left;"| Truckee || 12,756
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| 127 || style="text-align:left;"| Kingsburg || 12,602
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| 128 || style="text-align:left;"| Newman || 12,387
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| 129 || style="text-align:left;"| Castroville-Prunedale || 12,334
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| <span style="color:green;">130</span> || style="text-align:left;"| <span style="color:green;">Blythe, CA-AZ</span> || <span style="color:green;">11,780</span>
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| 131 || style="text-align:left;"| Twentynine Palms North || 11,665
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| 132 || style="text-align:left;"| Bishop || 11,013
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| 133 || style="text-align:left;"| Exeter || 10,973
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| 134 || style="text-align:left;"| Fort Bragg || 10,668
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| 135 || style="text-align:left;"| Solvang-Santa Ynez || 10,295
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| 136 || style="text-align:left;"| Delhi || 10,274
|}
See also
- California statistical areas