Houghton, Michigan

Houghton population, 2020 to 2024

Houghton added 177 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +3. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Houghton is 70% of it.

Houghton covers 4.38 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 1,950 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Houghton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Houghton is in

All of Houghton's residents live in Houghton County, which had 38,041 residents in 2024. Houghton holds 22.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Houghton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Houghton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49931. 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 Houghton is

The Census internal point of Houghton is at 47.111800, -88.567200. Lansing, the capital, is 360.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marquette, MI (21,845 people), 67.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 181.1 miles away.

Daylight in Houghton

At 47.11° N, Houghton gets about 15 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Houghton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Hancock, 2.2 miles away, with 4,620 people.