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Each year around this time, the state's Department of Finance estimates the population for California and every city. It's not a real count, but it's as close as we can get before the census results are tabulated. Some tidbits from the new report, which estimates population as of Jan. 1, 2010.
California population: 38,648,000 (up 393,000 over 2009)
Most populous California cities:
- Los Angeles 4,094,764
- San Diego 1,376,173
- San Jose 1,023,083
- San Francisco 856,095
- Fresno 502,303
- Long Beach 494,709
- Sacramento 486,189
- Oakland 430,666
- Santa Ana 357,754
- Anaheim 353,643
Cities that added popluation: 445
Cities that lost people: 30
Los Angeles increase: 44,037
Fastest growing city under 300,000: Irvine
Population of Los Angeles County: 10,441,080
Ten largest cities in Los Angeles County:
- Los Angeles 4,094,764 (+1.1%)
- Long Beach 494,709 (+0.8%)
- Glendale 207,902 (+0.7%)
- Santa Clarita 177,641 (+0.6%)
- Pomona 163,683 (+0.5%)
- Palmdale 152,622 (+1.2%)
- Pasadena 151,576 (+1.3%)
- Torrance 149,717 (+0.8%)
- Lancaster 145,875 (+0.9%)
- El Monte 126,464 (+0.5%)
No changes in the order of L.A. County cities.