South Haven, Michigan

South Haven population, 2020 to 2024

South Haven added 54 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +11.

South Haven covers 3.46 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,161 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so South Haven is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties South Haven spans

South Haven crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 4,017 residents as follows; Van Buren County holds 99.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in South Haven

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps South Haven by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49090. 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 South Haven is

The Census internal point of South Haven is at 42.401300, -86.268400. Lansing, the capital, is 90.2 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Benton Harbor, MI (8,848 people), 21.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 49.6 miles away.

Daylight in South Haven

At 42.40° N, South Haven gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near South Haven

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Bangor, 10.0 miles away, with 1,976 people.