Flat Rock, Michigan

Flat Rock population, 2020 to 2024

Flat Rock lost 250 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +28. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 123rd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Flat Rock is 84% of it.

Flat Rock covers 6.57 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 1,560 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Flat Rock is less dense than the typical town.

What county Flat Rock is in

All of Flat Rock's residents live in Wayne County, which had 1,771,063 residents in 2024. Flat Rock holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Flat Rock

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Flat Rock by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48134. 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 Flat Rock is

The Census internal point of Flat Rock is at 42.097900, -83.269800. Lansing, the capital, is 78.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Woodhaven, MI (12,575 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Dearborn, MI, 15.2 miles away.

Daylight in Flat Rock

At 42.10° N, Flat Rock gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Flat Rock

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Rockwood, 2.4 miles away, with 3,148 people.