Portage, Michigan

Portage population, 2020 to 2024

Portage added 1,037 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +511. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Portage is 4.1 times that size.

Portage covers 32.22 square miles of land and 2.94 of water, for 1,551 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Portage is less dense than the typical town.

What county Portage is in

All of Portage's residents live in Kalamazoo County, which had 264,780 residents in 2024. Portage holds 18.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portage

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Portage by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49002, 49024. 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 Portage is

The Census internal point of Portage is at 42.197100, -85.591400. Lansing, the capital, is 64.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kalamazoo, MI (73,290 people), 5.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Bend, IN, 50.1 miles away.

Daylight in Portage

At 42.20° N, Portage gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Portage

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Kalamazoo, 5.4 miles away, with 73,290 people.