Clawson, Michigan

Clawson population, 2020 to 2024

Clawson added 78 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +84. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Clawson is 94% of it.

Clawson covers 2.20 square miles of land, for 5,200 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Clawson is denser than the typical town.

What county Clawson is in

All of Clawson's residents live in Oakland County, which had 1,296,888 residents in 2024. Clawson holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clawson

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clawson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48017. 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 Clawson is

The Census internal point of Clawson is at 42.536700, -83.150400. Lansing, the capital, is 72.7 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Royal Oak, MI (58,251 people), 2.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sterling Heights, MI, 6.8 miles away.

Daylight in Clawson

At 42.54° N, Clawson gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clawson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Royal Oak, 2.0 miles away, with 58,251 people.