University Place, Washington

University Place population, 2020 to 2024

University Place added 256 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +214. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 79th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so University Place is 1.9 times that size.

University Place covers 8.34 square miles of land and 0.17 of water, for 4,216 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so University Place is denser than the typical town.

What county University Place is in

All of University Place's residents live in Pierce County, which had 941,170 residents in 2024. University Place holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in University Place

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap University Place by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98466, 98467. 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 University Place is

The Census internal point of University Place is at 47.215400, -122.547300. Olympia, the capital, is 20.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lakewood, WA (62,709 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 4.8 miles away.

Daylight in University Place

At 47.22° N, University Place gets about 15 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near University Place

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Fircrest, 1.8 miles away, with 6,988 people.