Poulsbo, Washington

Poulsbo population, 2020 to 2024

Poulsbo added 587 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.9%. In the latest year it moved by +374. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Poulsbo is 69% of it.

Poulsbo covers 4.77 square miles of land and 0.63 of water, for 2,634 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Poulsbo is close to the typical town.

What county Poulsbo is in

All of Poulsbo's residents live in Kitsap County, which had 281,420 residents in 2024. Poulsbo holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Poulsbo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Poulsbo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98370. 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 Poulsbo is

The Census internal point of Poulsbo is at 47.741100, -122.642200. Olympia, the capital, is 50.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bainbridge Island, WA (24,618 people), 9.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Seattle, WA, 15.9 miles away.

Daylight in Poulsbo

At 47.74° N, Poulsbo gets about 16 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Poulsbo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Bainbridge Island, 9.2 miles away, with 24,618 people.