Maricopa, California

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The largest community within a 50 mile [80 km] radius is Bakersfield. It is located about 28 miles [45 km] to the northeast of Maricopa and has a population of 247,057 people.^<1>

The next largest community is Santa Barbara. It is located about 48 miles [77 km] to the south of Maricopa and has a population of 92,325 people.

Other large communities in the area:

	Community	Direction	Distance<2>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Arvin	E	33 mi [53.1 km]	15,070	16.32% increase
	Carpinteria	S	47 mi [75.6 km]	13,655	3.8% decrease
	Delano	N	49 mi [78.9 km]	53,051	36.64% increase
	Goleta	SW	50 mi [80.5 km]	---
	McFarland	N	43 mi [69.2 km]	12,098	25.78% increase
	Ojai	S	42 mi [67.6 km]	7,775	1.11% decrease
	Shafter	N	31 mi [49.89 km]	15,800	24.06% increase
	Taft	N	4 mi [6.44 km]	9,147	42.92% increase
	Wasco	N	37 mi [59.5 km]	24,628	15.83% increase

Below is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance
	Buttonwillow	N	23 mi [37.01 km]
	Derby Acres	NW	17 mi [27.36 km]
	Dustin Acres	N	11 mi [17.7 km]
	Fellows	NW	11 mi [17.7 km]
	Ford City	NW	7 mi [11.27 km]
	Greenacres	NE	27 mi [43.45 km]
	Kern City	NE	27 mi [43.45 km]
	McKittrick	NW	21 mi [33.8 km]
	Mettler	E	24 mi [38.62 km]
	Pine Mountain Club	SE	20 mi [32.19 km]
	Rosedale	NE	26 mi [41.84 km]
	South Taft	NW	6 mi [9.66 km]
	Taft Heights	NW	6 mi [9.66 km]
	Tupman	N	16 mi [25.75 km]
	Valley Acres	N	10 mi [16.09 km]

Kern County

Maricopa is located in Kern County.

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

	County	Direction	Nearest Community	Distance From Maricopa
	Los Angeles County	SE	Gorman	35 miles [56 km]
	San Luis Obispo County	NW	California Valley	38 miles [61 km]
	Santa Barbara County	S	Ventucopa	16 miles [25 km]
	Ventura County	SE	Stauffer	28 miles [45 km]

The Commemorative Quarter for California<3>

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People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning 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) Maricopa. 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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