East Niles is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California. As of the 2020 census, East Niles had a population of 28,390. The CDP is within the Bakersfield's census county division, and borders the city of Bakersfield to the north and the southwest, Bakersfield Country Club to the northwest, Hillcrest and Potomac Park to the west, and Fairfax to the south.