Shepherd, Michigan

Shepherd population, 2020 to 2024

Shepherd added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +13.

Shepherd covers 0.96 square miles of land, for 1,590 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Shepherd is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shepherd is in

All of Shepherd's residents live in Isabella County, which had 65,072 residents in 2024. Shepherd holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shepherd

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shepherd by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 48883. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Shepherd is

The Census internal point of Shepherd is at 43.523600, -84.692700. Lansing, the capital, is 55.0 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Pleasant, MI (21,090 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lansing, MI, 56.3 miles away.

Daylight in Shepherd

At 43.52° N, Shepherd gets about 15 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shepherd

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Pleasant, 6.6 miles away, with 21,090 people.