St. Clair Shores, Michigan

St. Clair Shores population, 2020 to 2024

St. Clair Shores lost 682 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +237. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so St. Clair Shores is 4.8 times that size.

St. Clair Shores covers 11.68 square miles of land and 2.72 of water, for 4,972 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so St. Clair Shores is denser than the typical town.

What county St. Clair Shores is in

All of St. Clair Shores's residents live in Macomb County, which had 886,175 residents in 2024. St. Clair Shores holds 6.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in St. Clair Shores

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap St. Clair Shores by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48080, 48081, 48082. 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 St. Clair Shores is

The Census internal point of St. Clair Shores is at 42.493000, -82.890900. Lansing, the capital, is 86.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Warren, MI (137,686 people), 6.8 miles away.

Daylight in St. Clair Shores

At 42.49° N, St. Clair Shores 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 St. Clair Shores

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Roseville, 2.5 miles away, with 47,047 people.