Mattawan is a village suburb of Kalamazoo, in Antwerp Township, Van Buren County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 2,536.
The town was named after Matteawan (now Beacon, New York), a village on the Hudson River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.1 square miles (11 km), of which, 4.1 square miles (11 km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km) of it (0.48%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,536 people, 961 households, and 711 families residing in the village. The population density was 615.4 per square mile (237.7/km²). There were 1,024 housing units at an average density of 248.5 per square mile (96.0/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 94.16% White, 1.89% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.32% Asian, 1.22% from other races, and 2.05% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.12% of the population.
There were 961 households out of which…
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