Anacortes, Washington

Anacortes population, 2020 to 2024

Anacortes added 465 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +73. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 63rd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Anacortes is 1.0 times that size.

Anacortes covers 11.70 square miles of land and 3.95 of water, for 1,551 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Anacortes is less dense than the typical town.

What county Anacortes is in

All of Anacortes's residents live in Skagit County, which had 132,736 residents in 2024. Anacortes holds 13.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Anacortes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Anacortes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98221. 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 Anacortes is

The Census internal point of Anacortes is at 48.488700, -122.624000. Olympia, the capital, is 101.2 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Harbor, WA (24,163 people), 13.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 41.3 miles away.

Daylight in Anacortes

At 48.49° N, Anacortes gets about 16 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Anacortes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Oak Harbor, 13.5 miles away, with 24,163 people.