Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver population, 2020 to 2024

Vancouver added 7,708 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,259. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Vancouver is 11.0 times that size.

Vancouver covers 48.80 square miles of land and 3.70 of water, for 4,078 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Vancouver is denser than the typical town.

What county Vancouver is in

All of Vancouver's residents live in Clark County, which had 527,269 residents in 2024. Vancouver holds 37.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Vancouver

9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Vancouver by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98660, 98661, 98662, 98663, 98664, 98665, 98682, 98683, 98684. 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 Vancouver is

The Census internal point of Vancouver is at 45.637200, -122.596600. Olympia, the capital, is 97.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portland, OR (635,749 people), 7.4 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Vancouver

At 45.64° N, Vancouver gets about 15 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Vancouver daylight page.

Places near Vancouver

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Camas, 8.4 miles away, with 27,313 people.