Walker, Michigan

Walker population, 2020 to 2024

Walker added 684 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +515. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Walker is 2.1 times that size.

Walker covers 24.58 square miles of land and 0.57 of water, for 1,055 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Walker is less dense than the typical town.

What county Walker is in

All of Walker's residents live in Kent County, which had 673,002 residents in 2024. Walker holds 3.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Walker

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Walker by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49534, 49544. 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 Walker is

The Census internal point of Walker is at 42.996600, -85.756400. Lansing, the capital, is 63.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grand Rapids, MI (200,117 people), 5.7 miles away.

Daylight in Walker

At 43.00° N, Walker gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Walker

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Grand Rapids, 5.7 miles away, with 200,117 people.