Buckley, Washington

Buckley population, 2020 to 2024

Buckley added 466 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.0%. In the latest year it moved by +148. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Buckley is 31% of it.

Buckley covers 3.86 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,461 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Buckley is less dense than the typical town.

What county Buckley is in

All of Buckley's residents live in Pierce County, which had 941,170 residents in 2024. Buckley holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Buckley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Buckley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98321. 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 Buckley is

The Census internal point of Buckley is at 47.162200, -122.020300. Olympia, the capital, is 42.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Enumclaw, WA (13,173 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Kent, WA, 18.0 miles away.

Daylight in Buckley

At 47.16° N, Buckley gets about 15 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Buckley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Enumclaw, 3.1 miles away, with 13,173 people.