Kentwood, Michigan

Kentwood population, 2020 to 2024

Kentwood added 502 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +522. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 37th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Kentwood is 4.5 times that size.

Kentwood covers 20.92 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 2,618 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Kentwood is close to the typical town.

What county Kentwood is in

All of Kentwood's residents live in Kent County, which had 673,002 residents in 2024. Kentwood holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kentwood

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Kentwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49508, 49512, 49546, 49548. 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 Kentwood is

The Census internal point of Kentwood is at 42.884800, -85.592500. Lansing, the capital, is 53.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wyoming, MI (78,559 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 6.2 miles away.

Daylight in Kentwood

At 42.88° N, Kentwood gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kentwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is East Grand Rapids, 4.3 miles away, with 11,616 people.