Lowell, Michigan

Lowell population, 2020 to 2024

Lowell added 7 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +27.

Lowell covers 2.88 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,442 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Lowell is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lowell is in

All of Lowell's residents live in Kent County, which had 673,002 residents in 2024. Lowell holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lowell

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lowell by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49331. 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 Lowell is

The Census internal point of Lowell is at 42.934600, -85.346200. Lansing, the capital, is 42.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Belding, MI (5,967 people), 12.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 15.8 miles away.

Daylight in Lowell

At 42.93° N, Lowell 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 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lowell

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Saranac, 6.9 miles away, with 1,379 people.