Centralia, Washington

Centralia population, 2020 to 2024

Centralia added 664 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +71. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 52nd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Centralia is 1.1 times that size.

Centralia covers 7.81 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 2,441 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Centralia is close to the typical town.

What county Centralia is in

All of Centralia's residents live in Lewis County, which had 87,049 residents in 2024. Centralia holds 21.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Centralia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Centralia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98531. 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 Centralia is

The Census internal point of Centralia is at 46.722100, -122.970900. Olympia, the capital, is 21.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tumwater, WA (27,826 people), 18.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 43.9 miles away.

Daylight in Centralia

At 46.72° N, Centralia gets about 15 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Centralia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Chehalis, 4.0 miles away, with 7,717 people.