Olympia, Washington

Olympia population, 2020 to 2024

Olympia added 662 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +364. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 74th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Olympia is 3.1 times that size.

Olympia covers 18.22 square miles of land and 1.86 of water, for 3,088 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Olympia is denser than the typical town.

What county Olympia is in

All of Olympia's residents live in Thurston County, which had 302,912 residents in 2024. Olympia holds 18.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Olympia

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Olympia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98501, 98502, 98506. 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 Olympia is

The Census internal point of Olympia is at 47.040600, -122.895000. That is next to the Olympia capitol point. The nearest larger place is Lacey, WA (58,644 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 25.2 miles away.

Daylight in Olympia

At 47.04° N, Olympia gets about 15 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Olympia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Tumwater, 3.7 miles away, with 27,826 people.