Reading, Michigan

Reading population, 2020 to 2024

Reading lost 12 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

Reading covers 1.01 square miles of land, for 1,069 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Reading is less dense than the typical town.

What county Reading is in

All of Reading's residents live in Hillsdale County, which had 45,590 residents in 2024. Reading holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Reading

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Reading by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49274. 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 Reading is

The Census internal point of Reading is at 41.839600, -84.747800. Lansing, the capital, is 62.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hillsdale, MI (7,983 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 55.8 miles away.

Daylight in Reading

At 41.84° N, Reading 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 Reading

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Hillsdale, 8.3 miles away, with 7,983 people.