Population and Geography of the Upper Peninsula

320,000 People

• Approximately 3% of the Michigan
• Approximately 0.1% of the United States
• Population density of 19 people/sq. mile

10 Largest Cities

• Marquette (~19,661 people)
• Sault Ste. Marie (16,542)
• Escananba (13,140)
• Menominee (9,131)
• Iron Mountain (8,154)
• Houghton (7,134)
• Ishpeming (6,535)
• Ironwood (6,293)
• Kingsford (5,549)
• Gladstone (5,266)

* Approximately 205,500 people live in towns with 2,000 people or less

16,452 square miles

• About the size of Denmark
• Larger than the state of Maryland
• 12,000 miles of streams
• 4,300 inland lakes
• 1,979 ft. highest peek, Mount Arvon
• 1,700 miles of shoreline
• 320 miles wide

15 Counties

• Alger
• Baraga
• Chippewa
• Delta
• Dickinson
• Gogebic
• Houghton
• Iron
• Keweenaw (smallest population & area)
• Luce
• Mackinac
• Marquette (largest population & area, and is larger than Rhode Island)
• Menominee
• Ontonagon
• Schoolcraft