Hillsdale, Michigan

Hillsdale population, 2020 to 2024

Hillsdale lost 48 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -11. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Hillsdale is 66% of it.

Hillsdale covers 5.69 square miles of land and 0.43 of water, for 1,403 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Hillsdale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hillsdale is in

All of Hillsdale's residents live in Hillsdale County, which had 45,590 residents in 2024. Hillsdale holds 17.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hillsdale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hillsdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49242. 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 Hillsdale is

The Census internal point of Hillsdale is at 41.927500, -84.637500. Lansing, the capital, is 55.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Coldwater, MI (14,314 people), 18.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Ann Arbor, MI, 52.3 miles away.

Daylight in Hillsdale

At 41.93° N, Hillsdale gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hillsdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Jonesville, 3.9 miles away, with 2,167 people.