Ridgefield, Washington

Ridgefield population, 2020 to 2024

Ridgefield added 4,487 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +41.3%. In the latest year it moved by +616. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Ridgefield is 85% of it.

Ridgefield covers 7.55 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 2,034 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Ridgefield is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ridgefield is in

All of Ridgefield's residents live in Clark County, which had 527,269 residents in 2024. Ridgefield holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ridgefield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ridgefield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98642. 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 Ridgefield is

The Census internal point of Ridgefield is at 45.817600, -122.672000. Olympia, the capital, is 84.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Battle Ground, WA (22,959 people), 6.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Vancouver, WA, 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Ridgefield

At 45.82° N, Ridgefield gets about 15 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ridgefield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is La Center, 3.0 miles away, with 4,256 people.