Frankenmuth, Michigan

Frankenmuth population, 2020 to 2024

Frankenmuth added 151 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +19. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Frankenmuth is 43% of it.

Frankenmuth covers 3.12 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,662 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Frankenmuth is less dense than the typical town.

What county Frankenmuth is in

All of Frankenmuth's residents live in Saginaw County, which had 187,714 residents in 2024. Frankenmuth holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Frankenmuth

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Frankenmuth by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48734. 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 Frankenmuth is

The Census internal point of Frankenmuth is at 43.332800, -83.739100. Lansing, the capital, is 58.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Saginaw, MI (43,001 people), 12.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lansing, MI, 59.6 miles away.

Daylight in Frankenmuth

At 43.33° N, Frankenmuth gets about 15 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Frankenmuth

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Birch Run, 6.3 miles away, with 1,536 people.