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Washington has 11.4 public charging ports per 10,000 residents. We ranked 109 towns of 5,000+ people by ports per resident, and by how many licensed electrical and HVAC contractors are based there.
Most public charging ports per 10,000 residents
# Town Population Ports per 10k Public ports Licensed installers
1 Liberty Lake 13,353 70.4 94 (16 DC fast) 19 2 Woodinville 13,942 69.6 97 (24 DC fast) 49 3 North Bend 8,553 60.8 52 (48 DC fast) 15 4 Bellevue 154,377 54.8 846 (30 DC fast) 66 5 Ellensburg 20,996 40.5 85 (60 DC fast) 31 6 Poulsbo 12,562 39.0 49 (12 DC fast) 25 7 Colville 5,009 37.9 19 (12 DC fast) 10 8 Gig Harbor 12,643 34.8 44 (20 DC fast) 35 9 Mount Vernon 35,344 32.0 113 (21 DC fast) 37 10 Port Townsend 10,649 31.9 34 (8 DC fast) 8 11 Redmond 82,195 31.9 262 (25 DC fast) 50 12 Burlington 10,945 29.2 32 (20 DC fast) 25 13 Blaine 6,371 26.7 17 (16 DC fast) 12 14 Pullman 33,543 25.6 86 (12 DC fast) 8 15 Issaquah 39,664 24.5 97 (31 DC fast) 18 16 Chehalis 7,717 23.3 18 (18 DC fast) 32 17 Bellingham 95,860 22.1 212 (44 DC fast) 86 18 Ridgefield 15,359 20.2 31 (26 DC fast) 27 19 Seattle 780,995 20.1 1572 (143 DC fast) 370 20 Richland 64,372 20.0 129 (61 DC fast) 35 21 Centralia 19,061 19.9 38 (29 DC fast) 12 22 Walla Walla 33,901 19.5 66 (9 DC fast) 25 23 Aberdeen 17,044 18.8 32 (26 DC fast) 12 24 Arlington 21,959 18.7 41 (20 DC fast) 55 25 Sequim 8,199 18.3 15 (8 DC fast) 25
Charging deserts: larger towns with the fewest ports per resident
Towns of 25,000+ residents. Fewer public ports makes a home charger more valuable: see EV charger rebates for your zip .
# Town Population Ports per 10k Public ports Licensed installers
1 Maple Valley 28,553 1.4 4 21 2 Longview 38,294 2.1 8 (4 DC fast) 26 3 Lakewood 62,709 2.4 15 (4 DC fast) 41 4 Mountlake Terrace 25,198 2.4 6 20 5 Camas 27,313 2.6 7 13 6 Kent 136,588 2.9 40 (17 DC fast) 101 7 University Place 35,160 3.4 12 14 8 Mercer Island 25,302 4.3 11 6 9 Marysville 76,209 5.5 42 (19 DC fast) 72 10 Federal Way 100,252 6.3 63 (35 DC fast) 55 11 Edmonds 42,871 6.3 27 (12 DC fast) 34 12 Lake Stevens 41,350 7.0 29 (3 DC fast) 52 13 Sammamish 66,474 7.1 47 (28 DC fast) 7 14 Auburn 85,513 7.4 63 (45 DC fast) 105 15 Pasco 81,724 9.1 74 (19 DC fast) 48 16 Yakima 97,390 9.3 91 (38 DC fast) 114 17 Kennewick 86,728 9.6 83 (16 DC fast) 63 18 Renton 105,543 10.3 109 (47 DC fast) 92 19 Moses Lake 26,969 10.4 28 (17 DC fast) 38 20 Everett 113,011 11.2 127 (61 DC fast) 82 21 Spokane 230,609 11.5 266 (42 DC fast) 283 22 Bremerton 45,291 11.9 54 (14 DC fast) 41 23 Lynnwood 41,597 12.3 51 (23 DC fast) 87 24 Tacoma 228,202 14.9 339 (80 DC fast) 225 25 Lacey 58,644 15.3 90 (46 DC fast) 32
Most licensed installers per 10,000 residents
# Town Population Installers per 10k Public ports Licensed installers
1 Snohomish 10,534 85.4 9 90 2 Chehalis 7,717 41.5 18 (18 DC fast) 32 3 Deer Park 5,191 38.5 4 (2 DC fast) 20 4 Woodinville 13,942 35.1 97 (24 DC fast) 49 5 Woodland 6,496 33.9 2 22 6 Puyallup 42,552 31.3 69 (30 DC fast) 133 7 Stanwood 8,943 31.3 6 (6 DC fast) 28 8 Sequim 8,199 30.5 15 (8 DC fast) 25 9 Battle Ground 22,959 30.1 12 (8 DC fast) 69 10 Gig Harbor 12,643 27.7 44 (20 DC fast) 35 11 Arlington 21,959 25.0 41 (20 DC fast) 55 12 Milton 8,833 24.9 0 22 13 Bonney Lake 22,145 24.8 25 (8 DC fast) 55 14 Buckley 5,641 24.8 0 14 15 Burlington 10,945 22.8 32 (20 DC fast) 25 16 Lynnwood 41,597 20.9 51 (23 DC fast) 87 17 Enumclaw 13,173 20.5 9 27 18 Shelton 10,737 20.5 2 22 19 Port Orchard 19,122 20.4 17 (9 DC fast) 39 20 Colville 5,009 20.0 19 (12 DC fast) 10 21 Poulsbo 12,562 19.9 49 (12 DC fast) 25 22 Selah 8,653 19.6 2 17 23 Yelm 11,715 19.6 2 23 24 Sumner 10,885 19.3 12 (6 DC fast) 21 25 Olympia 56,271 19.2 86 (17 DC fast) 108
Method and sources
Charging ports: open public Level 2 and DC fast ports listed by the U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center, placed inside municipal boundaries (Census TIGER) by each station's coordinates. A 0 means no public port is listed for that municipality; private, workplace-only and planned chargers are not counted.
Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates for the municipality.
Installers: contractors whose state license record lists a business address in the town or its zip codes (how we use license data ).
Updated 2026-10-11. Journalists and researchers may cite these figures with a link to this page.