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Grand Rapids at night in 2016 from the International Space Station. Grand Rapids is the largest city in western Michigan. The following table contains the largest municipalities of West Michigan according to the 2010 Census. This defines the region fairly broadly, but not at its most broadly; if Battle Creek were included, it would be ranked ...
The smaller, less known Tri-Cities region lies in Western Michigan's Ottawa County, roughly west of Grand Rapids. The three municipalities are Grand Haven , Ferrysburg , and Spring Lake . The combined population of them and adjacent townships was 47,263 as of the 2020 Census.
According to the 2020 United States Census, Michigan is the 10th most populous state with 10,077,331 inhabitants and the 22nd largest by land area spanning 56,538.90 square miles (146,435.1 km 2) of land. [1] Michigan is divided into 83 counties and contains 1,773 municipalities consisting of 276 cities, 257 villages, and 1,240 townships. [2]
The Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the other two metro hubs of Muskegon and Holland. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1,059,113 in 2017. [4]
The West Michigan Tourist Association has compiled many live feeds from the U.P. and the western half of the mitten into a comprehensive list for curious visitors.
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
(Snowshoe, West Virginia, had data related only to the town’s cost-of-living score available through BestPlaces.) Take a look at the 12 most affordable ski towns and the cost of living in each one.
Michigan has an estimated per capita income of $27,549 and median household income of $50,803 [1] Michigan counties by per capita income Note: Data is from the 2010 ...