Washington · Census place 5352005

Orting, Washington

Orting is a city in Pierce County, Washington with an estimated 8,911 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 97th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
8,911
#97 of 206 in Washington
Change since 2020
-1.6%
-141 people
Land area
2.7 sq mi
+ 0.06 sq mi water
Density
3,288 / sq mi
State median 2,694
Orange pin: Orting. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Olympia.

Orting population, 2020 to 2024

Orting lost 141 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +7. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 113th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Orting is 49% of it.

9,05220209,05820218,96220228,90420238,9112024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 9,041. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Orting covers 2.71 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 3,288 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Orting is denser than the typical town.

What county Orting is in

All of Orting's residents live in Pierce County, which had 941,170 residents in 2024. Orting holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Orting

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Orting by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98360. 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 Orting is

The Census internal point of Orting is at 47.096900, -122.211700. Olympia, the capital, is 32.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Puyallup, WA (42,552 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 15.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
47.096900, -122.211700
DMS
47°05'48.84"N 122°12'42.12"W
UTM
10N 559822.4E 5216233.8N
Geohash
c235gj8pk
Plus code
84VV3QWQ+Q8

Daylight in Orting

At 47.10° N, Orting gets about 15 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Orting

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Puyallup, 6.8 miles away, with 42,552 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Orting, WA?

8,911 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 141 (1.6%) from 9,052 in July 2020.

What county is Orting in?

Pierce County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Orting?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 98360.

How far is Orting from Olympia?

32.7 miles (52.6 km) in a straight line, heading W from Orting.

What is the nearest larger city to Orting?

Puyallup, WA, with 42,552 residents, 6.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.