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Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area is made up of 2 counties in California: Los Angeles and Orange. About 12,844,441 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 2.7% fewer than in April 2020.

Los Angeles County, centralOrange County, centralLos AngelesLong Beach
2 counties in California
Population, July 2025
12,844,441 2.7% fewer than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
Counties
2, both central
Land area
4,854 sq mi (12,571 km²)
Time zone
Pacific TimeUTC-08:00 in January; UTC-07:00 in July
State
California
Combined statistical area
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
CBSA code
31080
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Counties in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area, largest first

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025Share of the area
Los Angeles CountyCentral9,694,93475.5%
Orange CountyCentral3,149,50724.5%

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal cities, largest first

  1. Los Angeles3,857,263 people
  2. Long Beach455,548 people
  3. Anaheim344,521 people
  4. Santa Ana312,534 people
  5. Irvine311,690 people
  6. Glendale190,748 people
  7. Torrance142,130 people
  8. Orange138,266 people
  9. Pasadena136,969 people
  10. Costa Mesa110,330 people
  11. Burbank104,546 people
  12. Carson92,871 people
All 19
  1. Santa Monica91,169 people
  2. Newport Beach83,845 people
  3. Tustin78,981 people
  4. Gardena59,422 people
  5. Fountain Valley56,258 people
  6. Arcadia55,170 people
  7. Cypress49,498 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Metropolitan divisions

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area is big enough to be split into 2 metropolitan divisions, each a job center with the counties that commute to it.

Part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 2 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area4,769,007 people
  2. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area830,851 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area47 mi west
  2. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area59 mi east
  3. Bakersfield-Delano, CA Metro Area99 mi north
  4. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area111 mi southeast

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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