{"id":8663,"date":"2023-10-04T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:07:43","slug":"spokane-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/spokane-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Spokane County, Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokane County is a county in Washington, United States, on the state&#8217;s eastern border with<br \/>\nIdaho. It had a population of 539,339 at the 2020 census, an estimated 558,344 by 2025, and<br \/>\ncovers 1,780.98 square miles (4,612.73 km2) centred near 47\u00b037\u2032N 117\u00b024\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Spokane is the county seat and by far the largest city; its postal code is 99201. The county<br \/>\nholds 9 cities, 4 incorporated towns and 7 census-designated places, plus dozens of smaller<br \/>\nunincorporated communities, and it runs on Pacific Time. Its FIPS code is 53063.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Spokane County<\/h2>\n<p>Spokane County has 20 incorporated places and census-designated places on record: 9 cities, 4<br \/>\nincorporated towns and 7 CDPs. CDP stands for census designated place, a populated area with no<br \/>\nlocal government of its own that the Census Bureau still tracks separately.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Spokane<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>228,989<\/td>\n<td>99201<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spokane Valley<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>102,976<\/td>\n<td>99206<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cheney<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>13,255<\/td>\n<td>99004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Airway Heights<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>10,757<\/td>\n<td>99001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fairwood<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>10,541<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Liberty Lake<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>12,003<\/td>\n<td>99019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Otis Orchards-East Farms<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>6,299<\/td>\n<td>99027<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mead<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>7,576<\/td>\n<td>99021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Country Homes<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>6,251<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Town and Country<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>5,068<\/td>\n<td>99208<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Medical Lake<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>4,874<\/td>\n<td>99022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Deer Park<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>4,383<\/td>\n<td>99006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fairchild AFB<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>2,695<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Millwood<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,881<\/td>\n<td>99212<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Four Lakes<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>537<\/td>\n<td>99004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fairfield<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>589<\/td>\n<td>99012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spangle<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>280<\/td>\n<td>99031<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rockford<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>522<\/td>\n<td>99030<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Latah<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>185<\/td>\n<td>99018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Waverly<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>121<\/td>\n<td>99039<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beyond these 20 places, several older place names in the county are no longer separate<br \/>\ncommunities. Dishman, Opportunity, Trentwood, Veradale, Greenacres, Pasadena Park and Orchard<br \/>\nAvenue were once distinct unincorporated communities east of Spokane; nearly all of that ground<br \/>\nwas folded into the City of Spokane Valley when it incorporated in 2003, so those names now<br \/>\ndescribe neighborhoods rather than places with their own population count. A separate set of rural<br \/>\ncrossroads communities still stands on its own outside any city limit &mdash; Chattaroy (ZIP<br \/>\n99003), Colbert (ZIP 99005), Elk (ZIP 99009), Newman Lake (ZIP 99025), Nine Mile Falls (ZIP<br \/>\n99026) and Valleyford (ZIP 99036) each has its own ZIP code but no Census Bureau population count,<br \/>\nbecause none of them meets the density threshold for CDP status.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>99201 &mdash; downtown Spokane (the county&#8217;s general-purpose ZIP; the city itself carries<br \/>\nmore than a dozen additional ZIPs, from 99202 through 99224)<\/li>\n<li>99206 &mdash; Spokane Valley (also serves 99212, 99216, 99016, 99027 and 99037 across the<br \/>\ncity)<\/li>\n<li>99004 &mdash; Cheney (also covers the Four Lakes area)<\/li>\n<li>99001 &mdash; Airway Heights<\/li>\n<li>99019 &mdash; Liberty Lake<\/li>\n<li>99021 &mdash; Mead<\/li>\n<li>99208 &mdash; Town and Country (also serves 99228)<\/li>\n<li>99022 &mdash; Medical Lake<\/li>\n<li>99006 &mdash; Deer Park<\/li>\n<li>99212 &mdash; Millwood<\/li>\n<li>99012 &mdash; Fairfield<\/li>\n<li>99031 &mdash; Spangle<\/li>\n<li>99030 &mdash; Rockford<\/li>\n<li>99018 &mdash; Latah<\/li>\n<li>99039 &mdash; Waverly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fairwood, Country Homes and Fairchild AFB have no ZIP code of their own; mail there is<br \/>\ndelivered under Mead&#8217;s or Spokane&#8217;s adjoining codes. Otis Orchards-East Farms uses<br \/>\n99027, which it shares with the eastern edge of Spokane Valley.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Spokane County sits in the Columbia Plateau of eastern Washington, where basalt scablands in<br \/>\nthe south and west give way to pine forest and lake country in the north. Of its 1,780.98 square<br \/>\nmiles, 1,764.22 are land and 16.76 are water, about 0.94 percent &mdash; most of it the Spokane<br \/>\nRiver, which crosses the county west from Idaho through downtown Spokane before turning north<br \/>\ntoward Long Lake behind Nine Mile Dam. The county&#8217;s north end holds several smaller lakes,<br \/>\nincluding Newman Lake and Liberty Lake, both popular for boating.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens County borders Spokane to the northwest, Pend Oreille County to the north, Lincoln<br \/>\nCounty to the west and Whitman County to the south. Idaho&#8217;s Bonner, Kootenai and Benewah<br \/>\ncounties lie to the east across the state line. <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/stevens-county\/\">Stevens County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/pend-oreille-county\/\">Pend Oreille County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/lincoln-county-washington\/\">Lincoln County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/whitman-county\/\">Whitman County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/kootenai-county\/\">Kootenai County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/bonner-county\/\">Bonner County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/benewah-county\/\">Benewah County<\/a> all border Spokane<br \/>\ndirectly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Spokane County had a population of 539,339 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts<br \/>\nthe county near 558,344 residents, making it the fourth most populous county in Washington.<br \/>\nSpokane and Spokane Valley together hold well over half the county&#8217;s population. Median<br \/>\nhousehold income runs $78,582, below Washington&#8217;s statewide figure of $94,605 (2023 ACS).<br \/>\nPopulation density works out to roughly 306 people per square mile of land, concentrated<br \/>\noverwhelmingly in the Spokane-Spokane Valley urban core, with the county&#8217;s northern and<br \/>\nsouthern reaches far more sparsely settled.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance employs the most workers in the county, about 43,597<br \/>\npeople, followed by retail trade at 31,337 and educational services at 22,735. Providence Sacred<br \/>\nHeart Medical Center and MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, both in Spokane, anchor the county&#8217;s<br \/>\nhealth care employment. Eastern Washington University, based in Cheney, is the county&#8217;s<br \/>\nlargest institution outside the health sector, founded in 1882 as the Benjamin P. Cheney<br \/>\nAcademy. Fairchild Air Force Base, home to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing and its fleet of Boeing<br \/>\nKC-135 Stratotankers, is a major employer west of Airway Heights. The county&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\nannual event is Hoopfest, a three-on-three street basketball tournament held in downtown Spokane<br \/>\neach June and billed as the largest of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington Territorial Legislature established Spokane County effective 29 January 1858,<br \/>\ncarving it out of Walla Walla County, which had originally covered most of eastern Washington<br \/>\nTerritory between the Cascades and the Rockies. The county is named for the Spokane people, whose<br \/>\nname is often translated as &#8220;Children of the Sun.&#8221; Spokane itself grew around the<br \/>\nfalls on the Spokane River that powered the city&#8217;s early lumber and flour mills, and it<br \/>\nhosted the 1974 World&#8217;s Fair, the smallest city ever to hold a world exposition at the<br \/>\ntime.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 90 crosses the county east-west through Spokane and Spokane Valley toward the Idaho<br \/>\nline. US 2 and US 195 also run through the county, along with State Routes 27, 231, 291 and 902.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coeur d&#8217;Alene, Idaho &mdash; about 30 miles east<\/li>\n<li>Colville &mdash; about 60 miles north<\/li>\n<li>Pullman &mdash; about 75 miles south<\/li>\n<li>Wenatchee &mdash; about 145 miles west<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spokane International Airport, about 7 miles west-southwest of downtown Spokane, is the<br \/>\ncounty&#8217;s commercial airport and the second-busiest in Washington, handling more than 4.2<br \/>\nmillion passengers in 2024. Amtrak&#8217;s Empire Builder stops at Spokane&#8217;s downtown<br \/>\nstation on its daily run between Chicago and Seattle\/Portland.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Spokane County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in eastern Washington on the Idaho border, bordered by Stevens, Pend Oreille, Lincoln and<br \/>\nWhitman counties in Washington and Bonner, Kootenai and Benewah counties in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Spokane County?<\/strong><br \/>\n539,339 at the 2020 census, with a 2025 estimate near 558,344.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Spokane County?<\/strong><br \/>\n1,780.98 square miles (4,612.73 km2), of which 1,764.22 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Spokane County?<\/strong><br \/>\nSpokane is the county seat and largest city in the county and in eastern Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Spokane County?<\/strong><br \/>\nNine incorporated cities &mdash; Spokane, Spokane Valley, Cheney, Airway Heights, Liberty Lake,<br \/>\nMedical Lake, Deer Park, Millwood and Spangle &mdash; four incorporated towns (Fairfield, Latah,<br \/>\nRockford and Waverly), and seven census-designated places including Mead, Fairwood and Otis<br \/>\nOrchards-East Farms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Spokane County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n99201 and its neighbors for Spokane; 99206, 99212, 99216, 99016, 99027 and 99037 for Spokane<br \/>\nValley; plus separate codes for each smaller city and town, from 99001 in Airway Heights to 99039<br \/>\nin Waverly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Spokane County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nBeing the commercial hub of the Inland Northwest, Eastern Washington University in Cheney, and<br \/>\nHoopfest, the world&#8217;s largest three-on-three street basketball tournament, held in downtown<br \/>\nSpokane every June.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/washington\/\">Towns<br \/>\nand villages in Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokane County is a county in Washington, United States, on the state&#8217;s eastern border with Idaho. It had a population of 539,339 at the 2020 census, an estimated 558,344 by 2025, and covers 1,780.98 square miles (4,612.73 km2) centred near 47\u00b037\u2032N 117\u00b024\u2032W. 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