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Olympia, WA 98506
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Lacey, WA 98506

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The 98506 ZIP Code is centered1 in Thurston County at latitude 47.104 and longitude -122.868 (Panoramio Photos). It is a standard type ZIP Code. Thurston County is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC -8 hours) and observes daylight savings time.

The population in ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 98506 was 17,406 with 7,777 housing units; a land area land area of 22.51 sq. miles; a water area of 0.34 sq. miles; and a population density of 773.33 people per sq. mile for Census 2000. Demographic Profile

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Nearby Cities, Towns & Census Designated Places

North Olympia, WA (< 0.1 mile)
South Bay, WA (1.9 miles SSE)
Boston Harbor, WA (2.7 miles NNW)
Puget, WA (4.5 miles NE)
Olympia, WA (4.7 miles SSW)
Thompson Place, WA (5.3 miles SE)
Lacey, WA (5.3 miles SSE)
Tanglewilde, WA (5.5 miles SE)
Beachcrest, WA (5.6 miles E)
Union Mill, WA (6.6 miles SE)

Nearby Neighborhoods, Subdivisions & Other Small Populated Places

Edgewater Beach, WA (4.3 miles NW)
Sunset Beach, WA (4.5 miles W)
Gravelly Beach, WA (4.5 miles W)
Rignall, WA (4.9 miles NNW)
Sunrise Beach, WA (6 miles WSW)
Mushroom Corner, WA (6.3 miles SE)
Carlyon Beach, WA (6.3 miles NNW)
Elizan Beach, WA (6.4 miles WNW)
Madrona Beach, WA (7.4 miles WSW)
Lamberts Corner, WA (8.3 miles SSW)

ZIP Codes - Key Concepts

  1. ZIP Codes are categories for grouping mailing addresses and are not exact geographic regions.
  2. The centroid of a ZIP Code may be in one County and the associated city/town in another.
  3. In rural areas, a single ZIP Code may be used for cities and towns in several different Counties.
  4. ZIP Code "areas" can overlap, be subsets of each other, or be artificial constructs with no geographic area.
  5. ZIP Codes are only loosely tied to cities.

1 Keeping the above key concepts in mind, what we informally refer to as the "center" of a ZIP Code is most often actually the centroid of a polygon.