Rockford, Michigan

Rockford population, 2020 to 2024

Rockford added 127 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +61. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 22nd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Rockford is 52% of it.

Rockford covers 3.22 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,954 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Rockford is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rockford is in

All of Rockford's residents live in Kent County, which had 673,002 residents in 2024. Rockford holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49341. 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 Rockford is

The Census internal point of Rockford is at 43.137000, -85.554500. Lansing, the capital, is 57.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grand Rapids, MI (200,117 people), 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Rockford

At 43.14° N, Rockford gets about 15 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Cedar Springs, 5.8 miles away, with 3,749 people.