Southfield, Michigan

Southfield population, 2020 to 2024

Southfield added 465 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +687. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Southfield is 6.3 times that size.

Southfield covers 26.27 square miles of land, for 2,926 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Southfield is denser than the typical town.

What county Southfield is in

All of Southfield's residents live in Oakland County, which had 1,296,888 residents in 2024. Southfield holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Southfield

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Southfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48033, 48034, 48075, 48076. 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 Southfield is

The Census internal point of Southfield is at 42.474600, -83.259500. Lansing, the capital, is 68.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Farmington Hills, MI (84,173 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Detroit, MI, 10.2 miles away.

Daylight in Southfield

At 42.47° N, Southfield gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Southfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Lathrup Village, 2.0 miles away, with 4,067 people.