Ecorse, Michigan

Ecorse population, 2020 to 2024

Ecorse lost 342 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.7%. In the latest year it moved by -1. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 150th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Ecorse is 74% of it.

Ecorse covers 2.84 square miles of land and 0.81 of water, for 3,147 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Ecorse is denser than the typical town.

What county Ecorse is in

All of Ecorse's residents live in Wayne County, which had 1,771,063 residents in 2024. Ecorse holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ecorse

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ecorse by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48229. 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 Ecorse is

The Census internal point of Ecorse is at 42.249600, -83.140400. Lansing, the capital, is 79.5 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lincoln Park, MI (38,774 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Dearborn, MI, 5.7 miles away.

Daylight in Ecorse

At 42.25° N, Ecorse gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ecorse

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is River Rouge, 1.9 miles away, with 6,877 people.