Airway Heights, Washington

Airway Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Airway Heights added 1,157 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.7%. In the latest year it moved by +317. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Airway Heights is 66% of it.

Airway Heights covers 6.01 square miles of land, for 1,988 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Airway Heights is less dense than the typical town.

What county Airway Heights is in

All of Airway Heights's residents live in Spokane County, which had 555,947 residents in 2024. Airway Heights holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Airway Heights

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Airway Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99001, 99224. 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 Airway Heights is

The Census internal point of Airway Heights is at 47.645900, -117.579200. Olympia, the capital, is 252.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spokane, WA (230,609 people), 7.0 miles away.

Daylight in Airway Heights

At 47.65° N, Airway Heights gets about 16 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Airway Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Spokane, 6.9 miles away, with 230,609 people.