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Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA Metro Area

The Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro area is one county in Washington: Skagit County. About 132,975 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 2.7% more than in April 2020.

Skagit County, centralMount VernonAnacortes
Skagit County in Washington
Population, July 2025
132,975 2.7% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Skagit County
Land area
1,730 sq mi (4,481 km²)
Time zone
Pacific TimeUTC-08:00 in January; UTC-07:00 in July
State
Washington
Combined statistical area
Seattle-Tacoma, WA
CBSA code
34580
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The county in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Skagit CountyCentral132,975

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal cities, largest first

  1. Mount Vernon35,377 people
  2. Anacortes17,966 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Seattle-Tacoma, WA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 6 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area4,161,883 people
  2. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA Metro Area304,261 people
  3. Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA Metro Area283,374 people
  4. Centralia, WA Micro Area88,062 people
  5. Oak Harbor, WA Micro Area85,657 people
  6. Shelton, WA Micro Area71,165 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Oak Harbor, WA Micro Area17 mi southwest
  2. Bellingham, WA Metro Area24 mi north
  3. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area55 mi south
  4. Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA Metro Area114 mi southeast

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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