Richmond, Michigan

Richmond population, 2020 to 2024

Richmond added 36 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +51. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Richmond is 49% of it.

Richmond covers 2.89 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,043 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Richmond is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Richmond spans

Richmond crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 5,905 residents as follows; Macomb County holds 100.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Richmond

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Richmond by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48062. 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 Richmond is

The Census internal point of Richmond is at 42.810600, -82.752200. Lansing, the capital, is 91.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Haven, MI (6,711 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sterling Heights, MI, 21.3 miles away.

Daylight in Richmond

At 42.81° N, Richmond gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Richmond

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Memphis, 5.9 miles away, with 1,083 people.