Yakima, Washington

Yakima population, 2020 to 2024

Yakima added 306 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +486. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 85th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Yakima is 5.4 times that size.

Yakima covers 28.09 square miles of land and 0.46 of water, for 3,467 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Yakima is denser than the typical town.

What county Yakima is in

All of Yakima's residents live in Yakima County, which had 258,523 residents in 2024. Yakima 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 Yakima

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Yakima by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98901, 98902, 98903, 98908. 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 Yakima is

The Census internal point of Yakima is at 46.590900, -120.549400. Olympia, the capital, is 115.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kent, WA (136,588 people), 95.8 miles away.

Daylight in Yakima

At 46.59° N, Yakima gets about 15 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Yakima

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Union Gap, 3.7 miles away, with 6,582 people.