Soap Lake, Washington

Soap Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Soap Lake added 79 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +36.

Soap Lake covers 1.54 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,156 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Soap Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Soap Lake is in

All of Soap Lake's residents live in Grant County, which had 104,717 residents in 2024. Soap Lake holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Soap Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Soap Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98851. 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 Soap Lake is

The Census internal point of Soap Lake is at 47.391100, -119.484600. Olympia, the capital, is 162.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ephrata, WA (8,718 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane, WA, 97.6 miles away.

Daylight in Soap Lake

At 47.39° N, Soap Lake gets about 15 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Soap Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Ephrata, 5.9 miles away, with 8,718 people.