Washington · Census place 5325615

Friday Harbor, Washington

Friday Harbor is a town in San Juan County, Washington with an estimated 2,744 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 149th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,744
#149 of 206 in Washington
Change since 2020
+4.3%
+113 people
Land area
2.2 sq mi
+ 0.07 sq mi water
Density
1,253 / sq mi
State median 2,694
Orange pin: Friday Harbor. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Olympia.

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Friday Harbor population, 2020 to 2024

Friday Harbor added 113 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,612. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Friday Harbor covers 2.19 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,253 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Friday Harbor is less dense than the typical town.

What county Friday Harbor is in

All of Friday Harbor's residents live in San Juan County, which had 18,668 residents in 2024. Friday Harbor holds 14.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Friday Harbor

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Friday Harbor by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 98250. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Friday Harbor is

The Census internal point of Friday Harbor is at 48.533900, -123.019000. Olympia, the capital, is 103.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anacortes, WA (18,148 people), 18.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 54.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
48.533900, -123.019000
DMS
48°32'2.04"N 123°01'8.40"W
UTM
10N 498597.4E 5375643.9N
Geohash
c28s0ek63
Plus code
84WRGXMJ+H9

Daylight in Friday Harbor

At 48.53° N, Friday Harbor gets about 16 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Friday Harbor

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Anacortes, 18.3 miles away, with 18,148 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Friday Harbor, WA?

2,744 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 113 (4.3%) from 2,631 in July 2020.

What county is Friday Harbor in?

San Juan County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Friday Harbor?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 98250.

How far is Friday Harbor from Olympia?

103.6 miles (166.8 km) in a straight line, heading S from Friday Harbor.

What is the nearest larger city to Friday Harbor?

Anacortes, WA, with 18,148 residents, 18.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.