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Frederickson is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Pierce County, Washington, between Tacoma and Puyallup.

The 2020 census counted 24,906 people in Frederickson, up from 18,719 in 2010 and just 5,758 in 2000, a more than fourfold increase in two decades.

The ancient Naches Trail, an Indigenous trade route crossing the Cascade Mountains through Naches Pass, passed through the Frederickson area near Clover Creek, and a military road between Fort Walla Walla and Fort Steilacoom followed it in the mid-1850s.

Hudson's Bay Company records note Euro-American settlement in the Frederickson vicinity as early as 1849, with many early pioneers settling along Clover Creek.

The Frederickson Employment Center is the largest designated industrial area in unincorporated Pierce County, with more than 2,800 acres designated for employment uses within the roughly 12-square-mile community plan area.

The arrival of the Boeing Company, Toray Composites, and dozens of other manufacturers transformed Frederickson from a quiet rural community into one of Pierce County's major industrial and suburban centers.

Freight rail service returned to Frederickson in 1998 when Tacoma Rail purchased and restored the area's rail lines after rail service had ceased for several decades.

Census Bureau survey data put Frederickson's average household size at about 3.16 people, larger than typical for Washington, reflecting its family-oriented subdivisions.