Lynden, Washington

Lynden population, 2020 to 2024

Lynden added 977 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.2%. In the latest year it moved by +313. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 32nd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Lynden is 92% of it.

Lynden covers 5.49 square miles of land, for 3,057 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Lynden is denser than the typical town.

What county Lynden is in

All of Lynden's residents live in Whatcom County, which had 234,954 residents in 2024. Lynden holds 7.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lynden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lynden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98264. 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 Lynden is

The Census internal point of Lynden is at 48.949900, -122.454800. Olympia, the capital, is 133.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bellingham, WA (95,860 people), 13.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 69.1 miles away.

Daylight in Lynden

At 48.95° N, Lynden gets about 16 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lynden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Everson, 5.3 miles away, with 3,169 people.