Pontiac, Michigan

Pontiac population, 2020 to 2024

Pontiac added 689 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +468. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Pontiac is 5.2 times that size.

Pontiac covers 19.89 square miles of land and 0.37 of water, for 3,144 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Pontiac is denser than the typical town.

What county Pontiac is in

All of Pontiac's residents live in Oakland County, which had 1,296,888 residents in 2024. Pontiac holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pontiac

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Pontiac by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48340, 48341, 48342. 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 Pontiac is

The Census internal point of Pontiac is at 42.649200, -83.287400. Lansing, the capital, is 64.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rochester Hills, MI (78,330 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sterling Heights, MI, 13.9 miles away.

Daylight in Pontiac

At 42.65° N, Pontiac 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 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pontiac

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Auburn Hills, 2.8 miles away, with 26,047 people.