Lake Stevens, Washington

Lake Stevens population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Stevens added 2,238 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.7%. In the latest year it moved by +614. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Lake Stevens is 2.3 times that size.

Lake Stevens covers 10.16 square miles of land and 1.56 of water, for 4,070 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Lake Stevens is denser than the typical town.

What county Lake Stevens is in

All of Lake Stevens's residents live in Snohomish County, which had 864,113 residents in 2024. Lake Stevens holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Stevens

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Stevens by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98258. 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 Lake Stevens is

The Census internal point of Lake Stevens is at 48.003400, -122.096800. Olympia, the capital, is 76.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Everett, WA (113,011 people), 5.0 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Stevens

At 48.00° N, Lake Stevens gets about 16 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Stevens

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Everett, 5.0 miles away, with 113,011 people.