City limits · Census Gazetteer 2025

How big is Sacramento, CA?

Name: Sacramento, CA city area and population density
Creator: U.S. Census Bureau

Sacramento covers 98.7 square miles (255.5 km²) of land and 2.1 square miles (5.4 km²) of water within its legal city limits. Its 2025 population density is about 5,438 residents per square mile of land.

Map locating Sacramento within California. — The marker locates the city within the state; it is not a street-level city-boundary map.

Land area98.7 sq mi255.5 km²

Water area2.1 sq mi5.4 km²

Population density5,438/sq mi2025 estimate ÷ land area

U.S. land-area rank#121of 19,483 cities with area data

City limits are not the metro area.

These figures describe the Census legal-place boundary for Sacramento. They do not measure the continuously developed urban area or the larger metropolitan statistical area, which can include nearby cities, suburbs, and counties. Use the same geography when comparing places: city-to-city for these figures, or metro-to-metro in the metro population explorer.

How the figures are calculated.

Land and water area come from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 Gazetteer Files. Density divides the July 1, 2025 city population estimate by land area only. Square kilometers are converted from the published square-mile values using 1 square mile = 2.58999 square kilometers.

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