Harper Woods, Michigan

Harper Woods population, 2020 to 2024

Harper Woods lost 499 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -3. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 144th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Harper Woods is 1.2 times that size.

Harper Woods covers 2.63 square miles of land, for 5,679 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Harper Woods is denser than the typical town.

What county Harper Woods is in

All of Harper Woods's residents live in Wayne County, which had 1,771,063 residents in 2024. Harper Woods 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 Harper Woods

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Harper Woods by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48225. 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 Harper Woods is

The Census internal point of Harper Woods is at 42.439000, -82.929300. Lansing, the capital, is 85.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grosse Pointe Woods, MI (15,897 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Warren, MI, 6.2 miles away.

Daylight in Harper Woods

At 42.44° N, Harper Woods gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Harper Woods

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Grosse Pointe Woods, 1.5 miles away, with 15,897 people.