Washington · Census place 5368750

Sunnyside, Washington

Sunnyside is a city in Yakima County, Washington with an estimated 16,317 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 68th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
16,317
#68 of 206 in Washington
Change since 2020
-0.5%
-79 people
Land area
7.6 sq mi
Density
2,161 / sq mi
State median 2,694
Orange pin: Sunnyside. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Olympia.

Sunnyside population, 2020 to 2024

Sunnyside lost 79 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +113. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 94th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Sunnyside is 90% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 16,384. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Sunnyside covers 7.55 square miles of land, for 2,161 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Sunnyside is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sunnyside is in

All of Sunnyside's residents live in Yakima County, which had 258,523 residents in 2024. Sunnyside holds 6.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sunnyside

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sunnyside by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98944. 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 Sunnyside is

The Census internal point of Sunnyside is at 46.315700, -120.005800. Olympia, the capital, is 145.9 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West Richland, WA (18,820 people), 29.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Kent, WA, 127.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
46.315700, -120.005800
DMS
46°18'56.52"N 120°00'20.88"W
UTM
10N 730521.0E 5133482.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
84RX8X8V+7M

Daylight in Sunnyside

At 46.32° N, Sunnyside gets about 15 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sunnyside

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Grandview, 6.8 miles away, with 11,599 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Sunnyside, WA?

16,317 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 79 (0.5%) from 16,396 in July 2020.

What county is Sunnyside in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Sunnyside?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 98944.

How far is Sunnyside from Olympia?

145.9 miles (234.9 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Sunnyside.

What is the nearest larger city to Sunnyside?

West Richland, WA, with 18,820 residents, 29.5 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.