Elk Rapids, Michigan

Elk Rapids population, 2020 to 2024

Elk Rapids added 71 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +5.

Elk Rapids covers 1.65 square miles of land and 0.36 of water, for 973 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Elk Rapids is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elk Rapids is in

All of Elk Rapids's residents live in Antrim County, which had 24,536 residents in 2024. Elk Rapids holds 6.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elk Rapids

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elk Rapids by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 49629. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Elk Rapids is

The Census internal point of Elk Rapids is at 44.898000, -85.404500. Lansing, the capital, is 155.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Traverse City, MI (15,782 people), 13.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 129.4 miles away.

Daylight in Elk Rapids

At 44.90° N, Elk Rapids gets about 15 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elk Rapids

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Bellaire, 11.1 miles away, with 1,045 people.