Parchment, Michigan

Parchment population, 2020 to 2024

Parchment lost 27 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Parchment covers 0.92 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 2,066 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Parchment is less dense than the typical town.

What county Parchment is in

All of Parchment's residents live in Kalamazoo County, which had 264,780 residents in 2024. Parchment holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Parchment

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Parchment by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49004. 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 Parchment is

The Census internal point of Parchment is at 42.327500, -85.565300. Lansing, the capital, is 58.6 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kalamazoo, MI (73,290 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 44.1 miles away.

Daylight in Parchment

At 42.33° N, Parchment gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Parchment

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Kalamazoo, 3.8 miles away, with 73,290 people.