Lakewood, Washington

Lakewood population, 2020 to 2024

Lakewood lost 910 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +443. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 111th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Lakewood is 3.5 times that size.

Lakewood covers 17.06 square miles of land and 1.83 of water, for 3,676 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Lakewood is denser than the typical town.

What county Lakewood is in

All of Lakewood's residents live in Pierce County, which had 941,170 residents in 2024. Lakewood holds 6.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lakewood

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lakewood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98498, 98499. 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 Lakewood is

The Census internal point of Lakewood is at 47.164100, -122.528100. Olympia, the capital, is 19.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tacoma, WA (228,202 people), 6.9 miles away.

Daylight in Lakewood

At 47.16° N, Lakewood gets about 15 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lakewood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Steilacoom, 3.0 miles away, with 6,649 people.