Cle Elum, Washington

Cle Elum population, 2020 to 2024

Cle Elum added 99 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +34.

Cle Elum covers 4.49 square miles of land, for 507 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Cle Elum is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cle Elum is in

All of Cle Elum's residents live in Kittitas County, which had 48,172 residents in 2024. Cle Elum holds 4.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cle Elum

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cle Elum by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98922. 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 Cle Elum is

The Census internal point of Cle Elum is at 47.194600, -120.952800. Olympia, the capital, is 92.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ellensburg, WA (20,996 people), 23.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Kent, WA, 60.5 miles away.

Daylight in Cle Elum

At 47.19° N, Cle Elum gets about 15 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cle Elum

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Ellensburg, 23.2 miles away, with 20,996 people.