Ranking of California Counties By Total Voting-age Population (18yrs and over) from Census 2020

Updated on August 22, 2023.

According to the data from the US 2020 Census, as at April 2020, among all the counties in California, Los Angeles County had the highest voting-age population (18 years and over) (7.96M), followed by San Diego County (2.61M), and Orange County (2.52M).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties with high voting-age population, and the table below shows the ranking of all California counties based on voting-age population.

You can also see the ranking of counties by population for other states as well as for the whole United States.

Ranking of California Counties By Total Voting-age Population from Census 2020
Los Angeles
7.96M
San Diego
2.61M
Orange
2.52M
Riverside
1.82M
San Bernardino
1.63M
Santa Clara
1.53M
Alameda
1.34M
Sacramento
1.22M
Contra Costa
902.67K
San Francisco
760.74K
Ranking of California Counties By Total Voting-age Population from Census 2020
Rank
County
Voting-age Population
1 Los Angeles County 7,959,791
2 San Diego County 2,608,768
3 Orange County 2,519,658
4 Riverside County 1,823,505
5 San Bernardino County 1,629,042
6 Santa Clara County 1,529,717
7 Alameda County 1,338,388
8 Sacramento County 1,217,309
9 Contra Costa County 902,672
10 San Francisco County 760,738
11 Fresno County 730,245
12 Ventura County 656,198
13 Kern County 651,739
14 San Mateo County 610,236
15 San Joaquin County 573,400
16 Stanislaus County 407,908
17 Sonoma County 393,152
18 Solano County 354,770
19 Santa Barbara County 350,805
20 Tulare County 331,093
21 Monterey County 327,777
22 Placer County 313,117
23 San Luis Obispo County 231,744
24 Santa Cruz County 219,764
25 Marin County 209,451
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