Lacey, Washington

Lacey population, 2020 to 2024

Lacey added 1,880 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.3%. In the latest year it moved by +410. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 56th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Lacey is 3.2 times that size.

Lacey covers 18.57 square miles of land and 0.49 of water, for 3,158 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Lacey is denser than the typical town.

What county Lacey is in

All of Lacey's residents live in Thurston County, which had 302,912 residents in 2024. Lacey holds 19.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lacey

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lacey by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98503, 98516. 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 Lacey is

The Census internal point of Lacey is at 47.043100, -122.798200. Olympia, the capital, is 4.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lakewood, WA (62,709 people), 15.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 21.5 miles away.

Daylight in Lacey

At 47.04° N, Lacey gets about 15 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lacey

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Olympia, 4.6 miles away, with 56,271 people.