Battle Creek, MI Metro Area
The Battle Creek, MI metro area is one county in Michigan: Calhoun County. About 133,408 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 0.7% fewer than in April 2020.
- Population, July 2025
- 133,408 0.7% fewer than in April 2020
- Type
- Metropolitan statistical area
- County
- Calhoun County
- Land area
- 706 sq mi (1,829 km²)
- Time zone
- Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
- State
- Michigan
- Combined statistical area
- Kalamazoo-Battle Creek-Portage, MI
- CBSA code
- 12980
The county in the Battle Creek, MI metro area
| County | Role | Population, July 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Calhoun County | Central | 133,408 |
A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.
Principal city
- Battle Creek52,374 people
OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.
Part of the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek-Portage, MI combined statistical area
OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 2 areas in this one, largest first:
- Kalamazoo-Portage, MI Metro Area263,795 people
- Sturgis, MI Micro Area60,968 people
Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first
Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.
- Kalamazoo-Portage, MI Metro Area18 mi west
- Coldwater, MI Micro Area27 mi southeast
- Sturgis, MI Micro Area36 mi south
- Hillsdale, MI Micro Area40 mi southeast
- Jackson, MI Metro Area42 mi east
- Lansing-East Lansing, MI Metro Area45 mi northeast
- Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI Metro Area51 mi northwest
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