Stanwood, Washington

Stanwood population, 2020 to 2024

Stanwood added 1,145 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.7%. In the latest year it moved by +224. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Stanwood is 49% of it.

Stanwood covers 2.98 square miles of land, for 3,001 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Stanwood is denser than the typical town.

What county Stanwood is in

All of Stanwood's residents live in Snohomish County, which had 864,113 residents in 2024. Stanwood holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Stanwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Stanwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98292. 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 Stanwood is

The Census internal point of Stanwood is at 48.245100, -122.342200. Olympia, the capital, is 87.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Arlington, WA (21,959 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 20.6 miles away.

Daylight in Stanwood

At 48.25° N, Stanwood gets about 16 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Stanwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Arlington, 10.5 miles away, with 21,959 people.