Ocean Shores, Washington

Ocean Shores population, 2020 to 2024

Ocean Shores added 957 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.1%. In the latest year it moved by +150. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Ocean Shores is 43% of it.

Ocean Shores covers 8.52 square miles of land and 5.26 of water, for 907 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Ocean Shores is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ocean Shores is in

All of Ocean Shores's residents live in Grays Harbor County, which had 77,893 residents in 2024. Ocean Shores holds 9.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ocean Shores

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ocean Shores by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98569. 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 Ocean Shores is

The Census internal point of Ocean Shores is at 46.965400, -124.147200. Olympia, the capital, is 59.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hoquiam, WA (8,771 people), 11.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 81.8 miles away.

Daylight in Ocean Shores

At 46.97° N, Ocean Shores gets about 15 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ocean Shores

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Westport, 5.2 miles away, with 2,341 people.