Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City population, 2020 to 2024

Traverse City added 108 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +64. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Traverse City is 1.3 times that size.

Traverse City covers 8.28 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 1,906 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Traverse City is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Traverse City spans

Traverse City crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 15,782 residents as follows; Grand Traverse County holds 97.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Traverse City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Traverse City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49684, 49686. 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 Traverse City is

The Census internal point of Traverse City is at 44.754300, -85.603000. Lansing, the capital, is 149.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Pleasant, MI (21,090 people), 89.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 118.3 miles away.

Daylight in Traverse City

At 44.75° N, Traverse City gets about 15 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Traverse City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Kingsley, 12.1 miles away, with 1,445 people.