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California has 17.5 public charging ports per 10,000 residents. We ranked 409 towns of 5,000+ people by ports per resident, and by how many licensed electrical and HVAC contractors are based there.
Most public charging ports per 10,000 residents
# Town Population Ports per 10k Public ports Licensed installers
1 Menlo Park 33,040 186.4 616 (48 DC fast) 25 2 Barstow 24,897 116.5 290 (229 DC fast) 12 3 South San Francisco 64,660 110.6 715 (116 DC fast) 69 4 Burlingame 30,885 93.6 289 (41 DC fast) 59 5 El Segundo 16,544 93.1 154 (2 DC fast) 26 6 Big Bear Lake 5,044 85.2 43 (21 DC fast) 19 7 Ojai 7,563 84.6 64 (16 DC fast) 23 8 Palo Alto 67,658 81.4 551 (55 DC fast) 35 9 Westlake Village 7,593 80.3 61 49 10 Santa Monica 90,729 78.7 714 (154 DC fast) 46 11 Pismo Beach 7,984 77.7 62 (23 DC fast) 23 12 San Mateo 103,006 70.1 722 (156 DC fast) 104 13 Santa Clara 133,132 69.3 922 (78 DC fast) 121 14 Malibu 10,298 68.0 70 (40 DC fast) 23 15 Larkspur 12,807 67.9 87 (28 DC fast) 5 16 Mammoth Lakes 7,124 67.4 48 (26 DC fast) 24 17 Culver City 39,883 65.2 260 (56 DC fast) 35 18 Los Altos 30,864 60.6 187 (45 DC fast) 14 19 Solana Beach 12,868 59.8 77 (8 DC fast) 17 20 Buellton 5,023 57.7 29 (20 DC fast) 18 21 Redwood City 82,982 57.5 477 (42 DC fast) 89 22 Placerville 10,695 57.0 61 (18 DC fast) 63 23 Burbank 103,533 56.6 586 (72 DC fast) 214 24 San Luis Obispo 49,729 55.9 278 (101 DC fast) 51 25 Sebastopol 7,388 55.5 41 (22 DC fast) 67
Charging deserts: larger towns with the fewest ports per resident
Towns of 25,000+ residents. Fewer public ports makes a home charger more valuable: see EV charger rebates for your zip .
# Town Population Ports per 10k Public ports Licensed installers
1 Bell Gardens 37,565 0.0 0 38 2 Riverbank 25,625 0.0 0 17 3 San Jacinto 55,515 0.7 4 41 4 Coachella 45,165 0.7 3 (1 DC fast) 47 5 Hemet 92,912 1.0 9 (4 DC fast) 88 6 Reedley 26,138 1.1 3 25 7 Lynwood 63,596 1.6 10 35 8 South Gate 90,805 2.1 19 (15 DC fast) 42 9 Yucaipa 54,465 2.2 12 82 10 Danville 43,410 2.3 10 (1 DC fast) 45 11 Temple City 34,989 2.3 8 45 12 Ceres 49,253 2.4 12 45 13 Rancho Palos Verdes 40,064 2.5 10 18 14 Wasco 27,409 2.6 7 (1 DC fast) 5 15 Lemoore 27,057 2.6 7 (1 DC fast) 19 16 Dinuba 25,833 2.7 7 12 17 Banning 31,929 2.8 9 (3 DC fast) 25 18 Imperial Beach 25,568 3.1 8 18 19 Apple Valley 75,029 3.3 25 (6 DC fast) 79 20 Lawndale 30,160 3.3 10 (8 DC fast) 29 21 La Habra 61,391 3.4 21 (4 DC fast) 80 22 Rancho Cucamonga 176,675 3.5 61 (28 DC fast) 254 23 Huntington Park 52,166 3.5 18 (18 DC fast) 23 24 Highland 56,499 3.7 21 (21 DC fast) 38 25 Bell 31,930 3.8 12 (12 DC fast) 9
Most licensed installers per 10,000 residents
# Town Population Installers per 10k Public ports Licensed installers
1 Sebastopol 7,388 90.7 41 (22 DC fast) 67 2 Loomis 6,939 79.3 26 (22 DC fast) 55 3 Auburn 13,780 71.1 22 (8 DC fast) 98 4 Grass Valley 14,085 70.3 32 (14 DC fast) 99 5 Westlake Village 7,593 64.5 61 49 6 Placerville 10,695 58.9 61 (18 DC fast) 63 7 Sonoma 10,606 49.0 18 (12 DC fast) 52 8 Big Bear Lake 5,044 37.7 43 (21 DC fast) 19 9 Los Alamitos 11,846 37.1 27 (4 DC fast) 44 10 Tehachapi 11,114 36.0 59 (22 DC fast) 40 11 Buellton 5,023 35.8 29 (20 DC fast) 18 12 Norco 25,400 34.6 16 (8 DC fast) 88 13 Mammoth Lakes 7,124 33.7 48 (26 DC fast) 24 14 Paradise 9,114 31.8 11 (8 DC fast) 29 15 Cotati 7,403 31.1 17 (12 DC fast) 23 16 Fort Bragg 7,117 30.9 25 (14 DC fast) 22 17 Ojai 7,563 30.4 64 (16 DC fast) 23 18 Santa Fe Springs 18,683 28.9 39 (20 DC fast) 54 19 Pismo Beach 7,984 28.8 62 (23 DC fast) 23 20 Anderson 11,171 28.6 15 (13 DC fast) 32 21 Truckee 17,240 27.8 67 (55 DC fast) 48 22 Agoura Hills 19,429 25.7 82 (35 DC fast) 50 23 Jackson 5,079 25.6 0 13 24 Lakeport 5,104 25.5 24 13 25 Palm Desert 53,147 24.3 80 (12 DC fast) 129
Method and sources
Charging ports: open public Level 2 and DC fast ports listed by the U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center, placed inside municipal boundaries (Census TIGER) by each station's coordinates. A 0 means no public port is listed for that municipality; private, workplace-only and planned chargers are not counted.
Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates for the municipality.
Installers: contractors whose state license record lists a business address in the town or its zip codes (how we use license data ).
Updated 2026-10-11. Journalists and researchers may cite these figures with a link to this page.