Coldwater, Michigan

Coldwater population, 2020 to 2024

Coldwater added 896 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.7%. In the latest year it moved by +144. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Coldwater is 1.2 times that size.

Coldwater covers 9.42 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 1,520 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Coldwater is less dense than the typical town.

What county Coldwater is in

All of Coldwater's residents live in Branch County, which had 46,187 residents in 2024. Coldwater holds 31.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Coldwater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Coldwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49036. 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 Coldwater is

The Census internal point of Coldwater is at 41.946000, -84.999300. Lansing, the capital, is 59.0 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Battle Creek, MI (52,205 people), 27.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lansing, MI, 57.6 miles away.

Daylight in Coldwater

At 41.95° N, Coldwater gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Coldwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Quincy, 6.0 miles away, with 1,566 people.