East Tawas, Michigan

East Tawas population, 2020 to 2024

East Tawas added 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

East Tawas covers 2.81 square miles of land and 0.46 of water, for 952 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so East Tawas is less dense than the typical town.

What county East Tawas is in

All of East Tawas's residents live in Iosco County, which had 25,361 residents in 2024. East Tawas holds 10.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in East Tawas

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps East Tawas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48730. 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 Tawas is

The Census internal point of East Tawas is at 44.290800, -83.483800. Lansing, the capital, is 120.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bad Axe, MI (2,966 people), 41.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sterling Heights, MI, 120.3 miles away.

Daylight in East Tawas

At 44.29° N, East Tawas gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near East Tawas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Tawas City, 2.5 miles away, with 1,837 people.