Washington, Kansas

Washington population, 2020 to 2024

Washington added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Washington covers 0.97 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,108 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Washington is less dense than the typical town.

What county Washington is in

All of Washington's residents live in Washington County, which had 5,572 residents in 2024. Washington holds 19.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Washington

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Washington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66968. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Washington is

The Census internal point of Washington is at 39.815800, -97.048400. Topeka, the capital, is 90.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marysville, KS (3,422 people), 21.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lincoln, NE, 71.5 miles away.

Daylight in Washington

At 39.82° N, Washington gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Washington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Marysville, 21.8 miles away, with 3,422 people.