Washington · Census place 5360230

Royal City, Washington

Royal City is a city in Grant County, Washington with an estimated 1,907 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 171st largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,907
#171 of 206 in Washington
Change since 2020
+6.9%
+123 people
Land area
1.2 sq mi
Density
1,644 / sq mi
State median 2,694
Orange pin: Royal City. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Olympia.

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Royal City population, 2020 to 2024

Royal City added 123 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.9%. In the latest year it moved by +10.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,778. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Royal City covers 1.16 square miles of land, for 1,644 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Royal City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Royal City is in

All of Royal City's residents live in Grant County, which had 104,717 residents in 2024. Royal City holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Royal City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Royal City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99357. 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 Royal City is

The Census internal point of Royal City is at 46.901900, -119.620700. Olympia, the capital, is 154.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mattawa, WA (3,784 people), 17.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane, WA, 115.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
46.901900, -119.620700
DMS
46°54'6.84"N 119°37'14.52"W
UTM
11N 300399.9E 5197597.0N
Geohash
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Plus code
85R2W92H+QP

Daylight in Royal City

At 46.90° N, Royal City 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 Royal City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is George, 16.9 miles away, with 1,006 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Royal City, WA?

1,907 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 123 (6.9%) from 1,784 in July 2020.

What county is Royal City in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Royal City?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 99357.

How far is Royal City from Olympia?

154.9 miles (249.3 km) in a straight line, heading W from Royal City.

What is the nearest larger city to Royal City?

Mattawa, WA, with 3,784 residents, 17.6 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.