Mountlake Terrace, Washington

Mountlake Terrace population, 2020 to 2024

Mountlake Terrace added 3,912 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +18.4%. In the latest year it moved by +1,427. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Mountlake Terrace is 1.4 times that size.

Mountlake Terrace covers 4.06 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 6,206 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Mountlake Terrace is denser than the typical town.

What county Mountlake Terrace is in

All of Mountlake Terrace's residents live in Snohomish County, which had 864,113 residents in 2024. Mountlake Terrace holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mountlake Terrace

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mountlake Terrace by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98043. 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 Mountlake Terrace is

The Census internal point of Mountlake Terrace is at 47.794300, -122.302600. Olympia, the capital, is 59.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lynnwood, WA (41,597 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Seattle, WA, 12.3 miles away.

Daylight in Mountlake Terrace

At 47.79° N, Mountlake Terrace gets about 16 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mountlake Terrace

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Brier, 1.4 miles away, with 6,603 people.