Ferndale, Washington

Ferndale population, 2020 to 2024

Ferndale added 1,560 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.3%. In the latest year it moved by +210. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Ferndale is 92% of it.

Ferndale covers 7.20 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 2,320 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Ferndale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ferndale is in

All of Ferndale's residents live in Whatcom County, which had 234,954 residents in 2024. Ferndale holds 7.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ferndale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ferndale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98248. 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 Ferndale is

The Census internal point of Ferndale is at 48.853400, -122.590200. Olympia, the capital, is 126.4 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bellingham, WA (95,860 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 64.1 miles away.

Daylight in Ferndale

At 48.85° N, Ferndale gets about 16 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ferndale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Bellingham, 8.8 miles away, with 95,860 people.