Fife, Washington

Fife population, 2020 to 2024

Fife added 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +330. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 86th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Fife is 61% of it.

Fife covers 5.83 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,900 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Fife is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fife is in

All of Fife's residents live in Pierce County, which had 941,170 residents in 2024. Fife holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fife

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fife by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98424. 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 Fife is

The Census internal point of Fife is at 47.232300, -122.350600. Olympia, the capital, is 29.2 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Edgewood, WA (13,496 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 5.3 miles away.

Daylight in Fife

At 47.23° N, Fife gets about 15 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fife

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Milton, 2.1 miles away, with 8,833 people.