Bad Axe, Michigan

Bad Axe population, 2020 to 2024

Bad Axe lost 59 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -15.

Bad Axe covers 2.33 square miles of land, for 1,273 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Bad Axe is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bad Axe is in

All of Bad Axe's residents live in Huron County, which had 30,780 residents in 2024. Bad Axe holds 9.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bad Axe

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bad Axe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48413. 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 Bad Axe is

The Census internal point of Bad Axe is at 43.804900, -82.998300. Lansing, the capital, is 107.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Caro, MI (4,262 people), 29.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sterling Heights, MI, 84.6 miles away.

Daylight in Bad Axe

At 43.80° N, Bad Axe gets about 15 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bad Axe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Pigeon, 13.7 miles away, with 1,190 people.