Alma, Michigan

Alma population, 2020 to 2024

Alma lost 119 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -25. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 102nd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Alma is 77% of it.

Alma covers 5.98 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 1,563 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Alma is less dense than the typical town.

What county Alma is in

All of Alma's residents live in Gratiot County, which had 41,372 residents in 2024. Alma holds 22.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alma

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alma by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48801. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alma is

The Census internal point of Alma is at 43.380300, -84.654400. Lansing, the capital, is 44.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Pleasant, MI (21,090 people), 16.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lansing, MI, 46.2 miles away.

Daylight in Alma

At 43.38° N, Alma gets about 15 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alma

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Louis, 2.9 miles away, with 7,465 people.