Explore Imperial Beach local geography, civic resources and voter guides, with dated official population and registration facts for San Diego County.
At a glance: Imperial Beach is an incorporated city in San Diego County. Population: 26,066 (California Department of Finance estimate as of January 1, 2026). Registered voters: 13,990 (California Secretary of State, as of September 4, 2026).
Imperial Beach is the southwesternmost city in California, a low-lying beach community between the Pacific Ocean and the Tijuana Estuary, just north of the Mexican border. Its setting combines a wide sandy shoreline with one of the region’s significant coastal wetland systems. The City Clerk directs, plans, organizes and controls the maintenance of all official city documents and records — agendas, minutes, resolutions, ordinances, public-records requests, recorded documents, contracts and agreements — and oversees the citywide centralized Records Management Program, including codification of the Imperial Beach Municipal Code. The Clerk also handles meeting administration for the City Council, the Redevelopment Agency Successor Agency and city boards and commissions, and serves as the city’s Elections Official and as Filing Officer for the state Fair Political Practices Commission, processing Statements of Economic Interest and administering the city’s Conflict of Interest Code. County voting services are administered by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters.
The City Clerk is the city’s Elections Official and directs the conduct of municipal elections.
The City Clerk oversees the citywide Records Management Program, including codification of the Municipal Code.
The City Clerk is the city’s Filing Officer for the state Fair Political Practices Commission, processing Statements of Economic Interest and the Conflict of Interest Code.
13,990 (California Secretary of State, as of September 4, 2026).
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