Lake Orion, Michigan

Lake Orion population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Orion lost 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

Lake Orion covers 0.79 square miles of land and 0.53 of water, for 3,618 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Lake Orion is denser than the typical town.

What county Lake Orion is in

All of Lake Orion's residents live in Oakland County, which had 1,296,888 residents in 2024. Lake Orion holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Orion

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Orion by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 48362. 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 Orion is

The Census internal point of Lake Orion is at 42.783700, -83.244300. Lansing, the capital, is 66.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oxford, MI (3,490 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sterling Heights, MI, 17.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Orion

At 42.78° N, Lake Orion gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Orion

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Oxford, 2.6 miles away, with 3,490 people.