Sultan, Washington

Sultan population, 2020 to 2024

Sultan added 1,834 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +35.5%. In the latest year it moved by +455. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Sultan is 39% of it.

Sultan covers 3.34 square miles of land, for 2,096 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Sultan is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sultan is in

All of Sultan's residents live in Snohomish County, which had 864,113 residents in 2024. Sultan holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sultan

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sultan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98294. 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 Sultan is

The Census internal point of Sultan is at 47.871100, -121.804100. Olympia, the capital, is 77.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monroe, WA (19,927 people), 8.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 19.0 miles away.

Daylight in Sultan

At 47.87° N, Sultan gets about 16 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sultan

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Gold Bar, 5.3 miles away, with 2,478 people.