Ishpeming, Michigan

Ishpeming population, 2020 to 2024

Ishpeming added 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +12. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Ishpeming is 51% of it.

Ishpeming covers 8.75 square miles of land and 0.61 of water, for 709 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Ishpeming is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ishpeming is in

All of Ishpeming's residents live in Marquette County, which had 67,979 residents in 2024. Ishpeming holds 9.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ishpeming

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ishpeming by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49849. 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 Ishpeming is

The Census internal point of Ishpeming is at 46.470300, -87.675100. Lansing, the capital, is 300.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marquette, MI (21,845 people), 14.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 135.5 miles away.

Daylight in Ishpeming

At 46.47° N, Ishpeming gets about 15 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ishpeming

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Negaunee, 4.4 miles away, with 4,676 people.