Napa, CA Metro Area

The Napa, CA metro area is one county in California: Napa County. About 132,949 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 3.7% fewer than in April 2020.

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Napa County in California
Population, July 2025
132,949 3.7% fewer than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Napa County
Land area
752 sq mi (1,948 km²)
Time zone
Pacific TimeUTC-08:00 in January; UTC-07:00 in July
State
California
Combined statistical area
San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA
CBSA code
34900

The county in the Napa, CA metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Napa CountyCentral132,949

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 city

  1. Napa78,239 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.

Part of the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 7 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area4,630,041 people
  2. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area1,984,473 people
  3. Stockton-Lodi, CA Metro Area823,815 people
  4. Modesto, CA Metro Area557,719 people
  5. Vallejo, CA Metro Area455,376 people
  6. Merced, CA Metro Area297,260 people
  7. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA Metro Area258,852 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. Vallejo, CA Metro Area13 mi south
  2. Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA Metro Area24 mi northwest
  3. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metro Area49 mi northeast
  4. Clearlake, CA Micro Area49 mi north

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