Ellensburg, Washington

Ellensburg population, 2020 to 2024

Ellensburg lost 631 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by -114. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 123rd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Ellensburg is 1.2 times that size.

Ellensburg covers 8.68 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 2,419 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Ellensburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ellensburg is in

All of Ellensburg's residents live in Kittitas County, which had 48,172 residents in 2024. Ellensburg holds 43.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ellensburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ellensburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98926. 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 Ellensburg is

The Census internal point of Ellensburg is at 47.000100, -120.549500. Olympia, the capital, is 110.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Yakima, WA (97,390 people), 28.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Kent, WA, 82.6 miles away.

Daylight in Ellensburg

At 47.00° N, Ellensburg gets about 15 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ellensburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Kittitas, 6.3 miles away, with 1,445 people.