Seattle, Washington

Seattle population, 2020 to 2024

Seattle added 40,395 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.5%. In the latest year it moved by +16,813. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 39th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Seattle is 43.0 times that size.

Seattle covers 84.00 square miles of land and 58.07 of water, for 9,298 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Seattle is denser than the typical town.

What county Seattle is in

All of Seattle's residents live in King County, which had 2,340,211 residents in 2024. Seattle holds 33.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Seattle

31 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Seattle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98101, 98102, 98103, 98104, 98105, 98106, 98107, 98108, 98109, 98112, 98115, 98116, 98117, 98118, 98119, 98121, 98122, 98125, 98126, 98133, 98134, 98136, 98144, 98146, 98154, 98164, 98174, 98177, 98178, 98195, 98199. 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 Seattle is

The Census internal point of Seattle is at 47.619300, -122.351500. Olympia, the capital, is 47.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Francisco, CA (827,526 people), 684.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Bellevue, WA, 9.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 46 m (151 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Seattle

At 47.62° N, Seattle gets about 15 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Seattle daylight page.

Places near Seattle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Medina, 5.1 miles away, with 2,976 people.