Bakersfield, California

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Bakersfield is the largest city within a 50 mile [80 km] radius.

The next largest community is Delano. It is located about 33 miles [53 km] to the northwest of Bakersfield and has a population of 38,824 people.^<1>

Other large communities in the area:

	Community	Direction	Distance<2>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Arvin	SE	13 mi [20.92 km]	15,070	16.32% increase
	Maricopa	SW	28 mi [45.06 km]	1,133	1.98% increase
	McFarland	NW	26 mi [41.84 km]	12,098	25.78% increase
	Shafter	NW	14 mi [22.53 km]	15,800	24.06% increase
	Taft	SW	26 mi [41.84 km]	9,147	42.92% increase
	Tehachapi	E	34 mi [54.7 km]	11,736	7.11% increase
	Wasco	NW	27 mi [43.45 km]	24,628	15.83% increase

Below is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance
	Bear Valley Springs	SE	24 mi [38.62 km]
	Buttonwillow	W	25 mi [40.23 km]
	Dustin Acres	W	22 mi [35.41 km]
	Greenacres	NW	6 mi [9.66 km]
	Keene	E	26 mi [41.84 km]
	Kern City	NW	3 mi [4.83 km]
	Lamont	SE	7 mi [11.27 km]
	Mettler	S	17 mi [27.36 km]
	Minter Village	NW	15 mi [24.14 km]
	Oil City	NE	7 mi [11.27 km]
	Oildale	N	6 mi [9.66 km]
	Rosedale	NW	8 mi [12.87 km]
	Tupman	W	18 mi [28.97 km]
	Valley Acres	W	23 mi [37.01 km]
	Weedpatch	SE	8 mi [12.87 km]

Kern County

Bakersfield is located in Kern County and is the county seat.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kern: Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura.

Below are counties that are near Bakersfield (within 40 mi [64.4 km]). For each of these counties, we also show the community that is closest to Bakersfield:

	County	Direction	Nearest Community	Distance From Bakersfield
	Los Angeles County	S	Gorman	37 miles [59 km]
	Tulare County	N	Richgrove	33 miles [53 km]
	Ventura County	S	Stauffer	39 miles [62 km]

The Commemorative Quarter for California<3>

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Google's 'Search-by-Location' has proven to be a useful tool by people who planned visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Bakersfield. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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