Mason, Michigan

Mason population, 2020 to 2024

Mason added 41 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +71. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 47th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Mason is 69% of it.

Mason covers 5.11 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,627 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Mason is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mason is in

All of Mason's residents live in Ingham County, which had 290,427 residents in 2024. Mason holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mason

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mason by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48854. 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 Mason is

The Census internal point of Mason is at 42.580700, -84.442300. Lansing, the capital, is 12.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lansing, MI (114,336 people), 11.0 miles away.

Daylight in Mason

At 42.58° N, Mason gets about 15 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mason

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Leslie, 9.0 miles away, with 1,936 people.