Tawas City, Michigan

Tawas City population, 2020 to 2024

Tawas City added 10 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

Tawas City covers 1.70 square miles of land and 0.43 of water, for 1,081 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Tawas City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Tawas City is in

All of Tawas City's residents live in Iosco County, which had 25,361 residents in 2024. Tawas City holds 7.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tawas City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tawas City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48763. 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 Tawas City is

The Census internal point of Tawas City is at 44.267200, -83.523000. Lansing, the capital, is 117.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is East Tawas, MI (2,675 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sterling Heights, MI, 119.1 miles away.

Daylight in Tawas City

At 44.27° N, Tawas City gets about 15 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tawas City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is East Tawas, 2.5 miles away, with 2,675 people.