Escanaba, Michigan

Escanaba population, 2020 to 2024

Escanaba lost 116 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by -66. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 86th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Escanaba is 1.0 times that size.

Escanaba covers 12.75 square miles of land and 3.62 of water, for 964 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Escanaba is less dense than the typical town.

What county Escanaba is in

All of Escanaba's residents live in Delta County, which had 36,687 residents in 2024. Escanaba holds 33.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Escanaba

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Escanaba by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49829. 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 Escanaba is

The Census internal point of Escanaba is at 45.746300, -87.083600. Lansing, the capital, is 242.8 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marquette, MI (21,845 people), 57.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 95.4 miles away.

Daylight in Escanaba

At 45.75° N, Escanaba gets about 15 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Escanaba

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Gladstone, 7.7 miles away, with 5,226 people.