Michigan · Census place 2644780

Lake Linden, Michigan

Lake Linden is a village in Houghton County, Michigan with an estimated 1,051 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 347th largest of 353 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,051
#347 of 353 in Michigan
Change since 2020
+1.9%
+20 people
Land area
0.8 sq mi
+ 0.12 sq mi water
Density
1,330 / sq mi
State median 2,478
Orange pin: Lake Linden. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Lansing.

Lake Linden population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Linden added 20 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,035. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Lake Linden covers 0.79 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 1,330 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Lake Linden is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Linden is in

All of Lake Linden's residents live in Houghton County, which had 38,041 residents in 2024. Lake Linden holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Linden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Linden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 49945. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Lake Linden is

The Census internal point of Lake Linden is at 47.195500, -88.405700. Lansing, the capital, is 361.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Laurium, MI (1,904 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 185.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
47.195500, -88.405700
DMS
47°11'43.80"N 88°24'20.52"W
UTM
16N 393522.1E 5227848.1N
Geohash
f03hkr8vt
Plus code
86VH5HWV+6P

Daylight in Lake Linden

At 47.20° N, Lake Linden gets about 15 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Linden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Laurium, 3.1 miles away, with 1,904 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Lake Linden, MI?

1,051 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 20 (1.9%) from 1,031 in July 2020.

What county is Lake Linden in?

Houghton County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Lake Linden?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 49945.

How far is Lake Linden from Lansing?

361.1 miles (581.1 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Lake Linden.

What is the nearest larger city to Lake Linden?

Laurium, MI, with 1,904 residents, 3.1 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.