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Olympia, WA 98516
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Lacey, WA 98516

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The 98516 ZIP Code is centered1 in Thurston County at latitude 47.065 and longitude -122.793 (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) 98516 was 14,453 with 5,884 housing units; a land area land area of 26.57 sq. miles; a water area of 0 sq. miles; and a population density of 543.98 people per sq. mile for Census 2000. Demographic Profile

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Nearby Cities, Towns & Census Designated Places

Thompson Place, WA (< 0.1 mile)
Tanglewilde, WA (1.4 miles SSE)
Union Mill, WA (2.4 miles SSE)
Lacey, WA (2.7 miles SSW)
South Bay, WA (2.7 miles WNW)
Beachcrest, WA (3.6 miles NE)
Saint Clair, WA (4.3 miles SE)
Nisqually, WA (4.3 miles E)
North Olympia, WA (4.9 miles WNW)
Olympia, WA (5.5 miles WSW)

Nearby Neighborhoods, Subdivisions & Other Small Populated Places

Mushroom Corner, WA (1.9 miles SE)
Bush, WA (7.2 miles SW)
Fir Tree, WA (7.5 miles S)
Sunset Beach, WA (8.2 miles WNW)
Gravelly Beach, WA (8.5 miles WNW)
Edgewater Beach, WA (8.9 miles NW)
Lamberts Corner, WA (9.2 miles WSW)
Rignall, WA (9.2 miles NW)
Sunrise Beach, WA (9.4 miles W)
Yoman, WA (9.4 miles NNE)

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.