Mount Vernon, Washington

Mount Vernon population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Vernon added 32 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +50. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 88th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Mount Vernon is 1.9 times that size.

Mount Vernon covers 12.30 square miles of land and 0.33 of water, for 2,873 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Mount Vernon is close to the typical town.

What county Mount Vernon is in

All of Mount Vernon's residents live in Skagit County, which had 132,736 residents in 2024. Mount Vernon holds 26.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Vernon

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mount Vernon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98273, 98274. 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 Mount Vernon is

The Census internal point of Mount Vernon is at 48.417100, -122.311800. Olympia, the capital, is 99.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bellingham, WA (95,860 people), 24.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 31.7 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Vernon

At 48.42° N, Mount Vernon gets about 16 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Vernon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Burlington, 3.5 miles away, with 10,945 people.