Fenton, Michigan

Fenton population, 2020 to 2024

Fenton lost 147 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -1. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 98th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Fenton is 98% of it.

Fenton covers 6.65 square miles of land and 0.32 of water, for 1,787 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Fenton is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Fenton spans

Fenton crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 11,882 residents as follows; Genesee County holds 99.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fenton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fenton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48430. 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 Fenton is

The Census internal point of Fenton is at 42.800600, -83.717700. Lansing, the capital, is 42.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Burton, MI (29,420 people), 14.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Ann Arbor, MI, 36.2 miles away.

Daylight in Fenton

At 42.80° N, Fenton gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fenton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Linden, 3.5 miles away, with 4,185 people.