Washington · Census place 5344690

Medical Lake, Washington

Medical Lake is a city in Spokane County, Washington with an estimated 5,003 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 125th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
5,003
#125 of 206 in Washington
Change since 2020
+2.5%
+121 people
Land area
3.4 sq mi
+ 0.21 sq mi water
Density
1,485 / sq mi
State median 2,694
Orange pin: Medical Lake. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Olympia.

Medical Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Medical Lake added 121 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +14. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Medical Lake is 28% of it.

4,88220204,88920214,98320224,98920235,0032024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,881. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Medical Lake covers 3.37 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 1,485 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Medical Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Medical Lake is in

All of Medical Lake's residents live in Spokane County, which had 555,947 residents in 2024. Medical Lake holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Medical Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Medical Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99022. 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 Medical Lake is

The Census internal point of Medical Lake is at 47.571000, -117.689400. Olympia, the capital, is 246.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Airway Heights, WA (11,950 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane, WA, 13.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
47.571000, -117.689400
DMS
47°34'15.60"N 117°41'21.84"W
UTM
11N 448149.1E 5268850.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
85V4H8C6+C6

Daylight in Medical Lake

At 47.57° N, Medical Lake gets about 15 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Medical Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Airway Heights, 7.3 miles away, with 11,950 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Medical Lake, WA?

5,003 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 121 (2.5%) from 4,882 in July 2020.

What county is Medical Lake in?

Spokane County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Medical Lake?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 99022.

How far is Medical Lake from Olympia?

246.9 miles (397.3 km) in a straight line, heading W from Medical Lake.

What is the nearest larger city to Medical Lake?

Airway Heights, WA, with 11,950 residents, 7.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.