Belding, Michigan

Belding population, 2020 to 2024

Belding added 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +12. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Belding is 49% of it.

Belding covers 4.72 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 1,264 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Belding is less dense than the typical town.

What county Belding is in

All of Belding's residents live in Ionia County, which had 66,250 residents in 2024. Belding holds 9.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belding

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Belding by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48809. 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 Belding is

The Census internal point of Belding is at 43.096500, -85.233000. Lansing, the capital, is 42.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenville, MI (9,110 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 23.3 miles away.

Daylight in Belding

At 43.10° N, Belding gets about 15 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Belding

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Greenville, 5.8 miles away, with 9,110 people.