East Grand Rapids, Michigan

East Grand Rapids population, 2020 to 2024

East Grand Rapids added 221 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +132. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so East Grand Rapids is 96% of it.

East Grand Rapids covers 2.93 square miles of land and 0.46 of water, for 3,965 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so East Grand Rapids is denser than the typical town.

What county East Grand Rapids is in

All of East Grand Rapids's residents live in Kent County, which had 673,002 residents in 2024. East Grand Rapids holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in East Grand Rapids

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps East Grand Rapids by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49506. 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 East Grand Rapids is

The Census internal point of East Grand Rapids is at 42.946600, -85.606800. Lansing, the capital, is 55.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grand Rapids, MI (200,117 people), 2.7 miles away.

Daylight in East Grand Rapids

At 42.95° N, East Grand Rapids gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near East Grand Rapids

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Grand Rapids, 2.7 miles away, with 200,117 people.