Population Of California State 2024. The state of california has three cities that exceed population counts of over one million: Update to include latest july 1 estimates released december 2022, and informed by available 2020 census data.
July 2023 projections released by the department of finance suggest that the state population will plateau between 39 and 40 million residents in the long term. Salinas valley state prison officials investigating the death of an incarcerated person as a homicide.