Elma, Washington

Elma population, 2020 to 2024

Elma added 64 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +26.

Elma covers 2.76 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,274 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Elma is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elma is in

All of Elma's residents live in Grays Harbor County, which had 77,893 residents in 2024. Elma holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elma

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elma by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98541. 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 Elma is

The Census internal point of Elma is at 47.005200, -123.410800. Olympia, the capital, is 24.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Montesano, WA (4,194 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 47.8 miles away.

Daylight in Elma

At 47.01° N, Elma 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 Elma

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is McCleary, 7.6 miles away, with 2,059 people.