Moses Lake, Washington

Moses Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Moses Lake added 1,535 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.0%. In the latest year it moved by +586. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Moses Lake is 1.5 times that size.

Moses Lake covers 18.14 square miles of land and 2.96 of water, for 1,487 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Moses Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Moses Lake is in

All of Moses Lake's residents live in Grant County, which had 104,717 residents in 2024. Moses Lake holds 25.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Moses Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Moses Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98837. 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 Moses Lake is

The Census internal point of Moses Lake is at 47.127900, -119.276400. Olympia, the capital, is 170.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wenatchee, WA (35,401 people), 53.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane, WA, 93.9 miles away.

Daylight in Moses Lake

At 47.13° N, Moses Lake 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 Moses Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Warden, 15.3 miles away, with 2,806 people.