Owosso, Michigan

Owosso population, 2020 to 2024

Owosso lost 151 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -38. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 93rd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Owosso is 1.2 times that size.

Owosso covers 5.25 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 2,770 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Owosso is denser than the typical town.

What county Owosso is in

All of Owosso's residents live in Shiawassee County, which had 67,982 residents in 2024. Owosso holds 21.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Owosso

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Owosso by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48867. 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 Owosso is

The Census internal point of Owosso is at 42.995300, -84.175800. Lansing, the capital, is 26.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is East Lansing, MI (48,964 people), 23.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lansing, MI, 27.5 miles away.

Daylight in Owosso

At 43.00° N, Owosso gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Owosso

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Corunna, 3.1 miles away, with 3,014 people.