Galesburg, Michigan

Galesburg population, 2020 to 2024

Galesburg added 27 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

Galesburg covers 1.42 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,467 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Galesburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Galesburg is in

All of Galesburg's residents live in Kalamazoo County, which had 264,780 residents in 2024. Galesburg holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Galesburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Galesburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49053. 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 Galesburg is

The Census internal point of Galesburg is at 42.290900, -85.417600. Lansing, the capital, is 53.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kalamazoo, MI (73,290 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 47.8 miles away.

Daylight in Galesburg

At 42.29° N, Galesburg gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Galesburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Parchment, 8.0 miles away, with 1,901 people.