Longview, Washington

Longview population, 2020 to 2024

Longview added 425 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +122. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 76th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Longview is 2.1 times that size.

Longview covers 14.80 square miles of land and 0.53 of water, for 2,587 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Longview is close to the typical town.

What county Longview is in

All of Longview's residents live in Cowlitz County, which had 113,982 residents in 2024. Longview holds 33.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Longview

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Longview by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98632. 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 Longview is

The Census internal point of Longview is at 46.145700, -122.964300. Olympia, the capital, is 61.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Vancouver, WA (198,992 people), 39.3 miles away.

Daylight in Longview

At 46.15° N, Longview gets about 15 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Longview

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Kelso, 4.2 miles away, with 12,737 people.