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Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area

The Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro area is one county in California: Ventura County. About 830,851 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 1.6% fewer than in April 2020.

Ventura County, centralOxnardSan Buenaventura (Ventura)
Ventura County in California
Population, July 2025
830,851 1.6% fewer than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Ventura County
Land area
1,841 sq mi (4,768 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
37100
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The county in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Ventura CountyCentral830,851

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. Oxnard200,928 people
  2. Thousand Oaks125,205 people
  3. San Buenaventura (Ventura)109,857 people
  4. Camarillo70,186 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 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. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area12,844,441 people
  2. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area4,769,007 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. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area47 mi east
  2. Bakersfield-Delano, CA Metro Area80 mi north
  3. Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA Metro Area87 mi northwest

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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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