Ephrata, Washington

Ephrata population, 2020 to 2024

Ephrata added 226 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +87. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 62nd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Ephrata is 48% of it.

Ephrata covers 10.48 square miles of land, for 832 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Ephrata is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ephrata is in

All of Ephrata's residents live in Grant County, which had 104,717 residents in 2024. Ephrata holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ephrata

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ephrata by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98823. 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 Ephrata is

The Census internal point of Ephrata is at 47.312300, -119.534300. Olympia, the capital, is 159.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Moses Lake, WA (26,969 people), 17.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane, WA, 101.1 miles away.

Daylight in Ephrata

At 47.31° N, Ephrata gets about 15 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ephrata

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Soap Lake, 5.9 miles away, with 1,780 people.