Washington · Census place 5313785
Colfax, Washington
Colfax is a city in Whitman County, Washington with an estimated 2,692 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 150th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,692
- #150 of 206 in Washington
- Change since 2020
- -2.7%
- -75 people
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 712 / sq mi
- State median 2,694
Measure from here
Tools and pages that start from Colfax
Colfax population, 2020 to 2024
Colfax lost 75 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +12.
Colfax covers 3.78 square miles of land, for 712 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Colfax is less dense than the typical town.
What county Colfax is in
All of Colfax's residents live in Whitman County, which had 48,399 residents in 2024. Colfax holds 5.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Colfax
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Colfax by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99111. 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 Colfax is
The Census internal point of Colfax is at 46.922400, -117.301500. Olympia, the capital, is 264.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pullman, WA (33,543 people), 14.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane Valley, WA, 51.3 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 46.922400, -117.301500
- DMS
- 46°55'20.64"N 117°18'5.40"W
- UTM
- 11N 477045.1E 5196584.9N
- Geohash
- c2kdftzwu
- Plus code
- 85R4WMCX+X9
Daylight in Colfax
At 46.92° N, Colfax gets about 15 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Colfax
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Palouse, 10.7 miles away, with 1,029 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Colfax, WA?
2,692 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 75 (2.7%) from 2,767 in July 2020.
What county is Colfax in?
Whitman County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Colfax?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 99111.
How far is Colfax from Olympia?
264.0 miles (424.8 km) in a straight line, heading W from Colfax.
What is the nearest larger city to Colfax?
Pullman, WA, with 33,543 residents, 14.5 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.