New Buffalo, Michigan

New Buffalo population, 2020 to 2024

New Buffalo lost 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

New Buffalo covers 2.47 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 686 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so New Buffalo is less dense than the typical town.

What county New Buffalo is in

All of New Buffalo's residents live in Berrien County, which had 152,703 residents in 2024. New Buffalo holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in New Buffalo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps New Buffalo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49117. 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 New Buffalo is

The Census internal point of New Buffalo is at 41.791400, -86.742500. Lansing, the capital, is 129.4 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Michigan City, IN (31,466 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Bend, IN, 25.7 miles away.

Daylight in New Buffalo

At 41.79° N, New Buffalo gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near New Buffalo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Three Oaks, 6.6 miles away, with 1,396 people.