Michigan · Census place 2688140

Wixom, Michigan

Wixom is a city in Oakland County, Michigan with an estimated 17,486 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 58th largest of 353 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
17,486
#58 of 353 in Michigan
Change since 2020
+1.9%
+334 people
Land area
9.1 sq mi
+ 0.22 sq mi water
Density
1,913 / sq mi
State median 2,478
Orange pin: Wixom. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Lansing.

Wixom population, 2020 to 2024

Wixom added 334 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +158. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Wixom is 1.4 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 17,192. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Wixom covers 9.14 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,913 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Wixom is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wixom is in

All of Wixom's residents live in Oakland County, which had 1,296,888 residents in 2024. Wixom holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wixom

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wixom by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48393. 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 Wixom is

The Census internal point of Wixom is at 42.522800, -83.530200. Lansing, the capital, is 54.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Novi, MI (67,675 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Ann Arbor, MI, 19.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.522800, -83.530200
DMS
42°31'22.08"N 83°31'48.72"W
UTM
17N 292172.9E 4710927.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
86JRGFF9+4W

Daylight in Wixom

At 42.52° N, Wixom gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wixom

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Walled Lake, 3.0 miles away, with 7,413 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Wixom, MI?

17,486 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 334 (1.9%) from 17,152 in July 2020.

What county is Wixom in?

Oakland County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Wixom?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 48393.

How far is Wixom from Lansing?

54.1 miles (87.1 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Wixom.

What is the nearest larger city to Wixom?

Novi, MI, with 67,675 residents, 3.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.