Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Dearborn Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Dearborn Heights lost 2,014 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +23. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 141st; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Dearborn Heights is 5.0 times that size.

Dearborn Heights covers 11.74 square miles of land, for 5,199 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Dearborn Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Dearborn Heights is in

All of Dearborn Heights's residents live in Wayne County, which had 1,771,063 residents in 2024. Dearborn Heights holds 3.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dearborn Heights

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Dearborn Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48125, 48127. 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 Dearborn Heights is

The Census internal point of Dearborn Heights is at 42.335700, -83.288800. Lansing, the capital, is 70.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dearborn, MI (106,377 people), 4.2 miles away.

Daylight in Dearborn Heights

At 42.34° N, Dearborn Heights gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dearborn Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Garden City, 2.8 miles away, with 26,410 people.