California has a population of 830, making it the 28th largest place in Falkirk. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 683, a rise of 21.5% since.
The other populations of California
The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
830 | GeoNames |
| The place in 2005 The same settlement twenty years earlier. |
683 | World Gazetteer (2005) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Falkirk population trends, 2001–2024.
California in context
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The population, measured on a real boundary
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| California locality NRS census geography: the continuously built-up California | 781 | Census 2022 |
| California (GeoNames record) the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated | 830 | GeoNames |
The locality figure is Scotland's Census 2022, summed over the Scottish Postcode Directory's own postcodes for this locality; across all of Scotland that method lands within 601 people of the national census total. Where the two rows disagree, the census locality is the figure to quote.
Age profile
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Median age (exact) | 42 |
| Under 15 | 16.4% |
| 65 and over | 17.2% |
| 85 and over | 2.2% |
Scotland's Census 2022 publishes single year of age at output-area level, so this median is exact — the middle resident's actual age, with nothing interpolated. England's published tables stop at five-year bands, which is why English pages label their medians estimated and this one is not. Percentiles compare the 90 Scottish towns of 10,000+ residents with each other, never with England or Wales: their figures are a different census year, and a percentile that quietly mixed the two would be a lie with a percent sign.
Who owns the homes
| Measure | % of households |
|---|---|
| Owned, outright or with a mortgage | 69.8% |
| of which owned outright | 33.8% |
| Social rented | 25.6% |
| Private rented | 3.6% |
| Household has no car or van | 11.4% |
| Household has two or more | 48.1% |
Scotland's Census 2022, over the 308 occupied households of the locality. Shared ownership and shared equity count with mortgaged homes; every share is of households, not residents.
Getting to work
| How working residents travelled (census day) | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked mainly from home | 25.0% |
| Car or van (of those who travelled) | 88.5% |
| Public transport (of those who travelled) | 5.2% |
| On foot (of those who travelled) | 2.4% |
| Bicycle (of those who travelled) | 0.3% |
Scotland's Census 2022, collected 20 March 2022: past the last legal restrictions, but with home working still far above the old normal, so these are census-day records and mode shares are of the 384 employed residents who travelled, never of everyone.
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Nearby in Falkirk
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slamannan | 1,360 |
| 2 | Westquarter | 1,150 |
| 3 | Rumford | 840 |
| 4 | Whitecross | 780 |
| 5 | Avonbridge | 690 |
| 6 | Wallacestone | 680 |