Cheney, Washington

Cheney population, 2020 to 2024

Cheney lost 680 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.1%. In the latest year it moved by -187. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 124th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Cheney is 70% of it.

Cheney covers 4.34 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,926 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Cheney is close to the typical town.

What county Cheney is in

All of Cheney's residents live in Spokane County, which had 555,947 residents in 2024. Cheney holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cheney

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cheney by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99004. 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 Cheney is

The Census internal point of Cheney is at 47.491100, -117.581500. Olympia, the capital, is 251.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spokane, WA (230,609 people), 14.0 miles away.

Daylight in Cheney

At 47.49° N, Cheney gets about 15 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cheney

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Medical Lake, 7.5 miles away, with 5,003 people.