Milton, Washington

Milton population, 2020 to 2024

Milton added 131 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +87. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 72nd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Milton is 49% of it.

Milton covers 2.78 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 3,177 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Milton is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Milton spans

Milton crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 8,833 residents as follows; Pierce County holds 78.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Milton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Milton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98354. 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 Milton is

The Census internal point of Milton is at 47.252000, -122.317300. Olympia, the capital, is 31.2 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Edgewood, WA (13,496 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Federal Way, WA, 4.2 miles away.

Daylight in Milton

At 47.25° N, Milton gets about 15 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Milton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Edgewood, 2.0 miles away, with 13,496 people.