Grand Haven, Michigan

Grand Haven population, 2020 to 2024

Grand Haven added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +28. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 54th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Grand Haven is 91% of it.

Grand Haven covers 5.72 square miles of land and 0.53 of water, for 1,931 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Grand Haven is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grand Haven is in

All of Grand Haven's residents live in Ottawa County, which had 306,235 residents in 2024. Grand Haven holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grand Haven

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Grand Haven by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49417, 49456. 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 Grand Haven is

The Census internal point of Grand Haven is at 43.055000, -86.219300. Lansing, the capital, is 87.1 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Norton Shores, MI (25,070 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 29.2 miles away.

Daylight in Grand Haven

At 43.06° N, Grand Haven gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grand Haven

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Spring Lake, 1.8 miles away, with 2,510 people.