Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Mount Pleasant population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Pleasant lost 637 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +122. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 137th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Mount Pleasant is 1.7 times that size.

Mount Pleasant covers 7.72 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 2,732 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Mount Pleasant is denser than the typical town.

What county Mount Pleasant is in

All of Mount Pleasant's residents live in Isabella County, which had 65,072 residents in 2024. Mount Pleasant holds 32.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Pleasant

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mount Pleasant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48858, 48859. 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 Mount Pleasant is

The Census internal point of Mount Pleasant is at 43.596700, -84.776000. Lansing, the capital, is 60.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Midland, MI (42,780 people), 27.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lansing, MI, 62.0 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Pleasant

At 43.60° N, Mount Pleasant gets about 15 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Pleasant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Shepherd, 6.6 miles away, with 1,526 people.