Wenatchee, Washington

Wenatchee population, 2020 to 2024

Wenatchee lost 204 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +73. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 98th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Wenatchee is 2.0 times that size.

Wenatchee covers 10.64 square miles of land and 0.91 of water, for 3,327 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Wenatchee is denser than the typical town.

What county Wenatchee is in

All of Wenatchee's residents live in Chelan County, which had 81,228 residents in 2024. Wenatchee holds 43.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wenatchee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wenatchee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98801. 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 Wenatchee is

The Census internal point of Wenatchee is at 47.436000, -120.329300. Olympia, the capital, is 123.7 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Yakima, WA (97,390 people), 59.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Bellevue, WA, 86.0 miles away.

Daylight in Wenatchee

At 47.44° N, Wenatchee gets about 15 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wenatchee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is East Wenatchee, 2.5 miles away, with 14,330 people.