Rainier, Washington

Rainier population, 2020 to 2024

Rainier added 121 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +31.

Rainier covers 1.74 square miles of land, for 1,440 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Rainier is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rainier is in

All of Rainier's residents live in Thurston County, which had 302,912 residents in 2024. Rainier holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rainier

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rainier by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98576. 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 Rainier is

The Census internal point of Rainier is at 46.891700, -122.686500. Olympia, the capital, is 14.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Yelm, WA (11,715 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 27.1 miles away.

Daylight in Rainier

At 46.89° N, Rainier gets about 15 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rainier

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Yelm, 4.1 miles away, with 11,715 people.