Gig Harbor, Washington

Gig Harbor population, 2020 to 2024

Gig Harbor added 556 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +41. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Gig Harbor is 70% of it.

Gig Harbor covers 5.90 square miles of land and 0.35 of water, for 2,143 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Gig Harbor is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gig Harbor is in

All of Gig Harbor's residents live in Pierce County, which had 941,170 residents in 2024. Gig Harbor holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gig Harbor

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Gig Harbor by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98332, 98335. 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 Gig Harbor is

The Census internal point of Gig Harbor is at 47.338400, -122.600800. Olympia, the capital, is 25.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is University Place, WA (35,160 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 8.9 miles away.

Daylight in Gig Harbor

At 47.34° N, Gig Harbor 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 Gig Harbor

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Ruston, 5.0 miles away, with 1,048 people.