Attica is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Attica Township, Lapeer County, Michigan, United States. Its population was 994 as of the 2010 census. Attica has a declare office gone ZIP code 48412.

Attica is in southeastern Lapeer County, north of the center of Attica Township. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Interstate 69, with permission from Exit 163 (Lake Pleasant Road). I-69 leads east 39 miles (63 km) to Port Huron and west 27 miles (43 km) to Flint. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Attica CDP has an area of 4.968 square miles (12.87 km), of which 4.775 square miles (12.37 km²) are land and 0.193 square miles (0.50 km), or 3.88%, are water.

In 1851, William Williams from New York allow in built a sawmill here, and most of the unity developed on his land. I. N. Jenness, a lumberman and in addition to from New York, is considered as co-founder of the community. A proclaim office named “Mill Station” was established on October 9, 1867, with Oscar A. Williams as the first postmaster. The office was renamed “Elk Lake” on September 12, 1870, and became “Attica”, after the township, on February 1, 1871. The Attica Hotel, built in Attica, Michigan in the ahead of time 1870s, was originally called the Williams House and difficult the Schirmer House.The Williams family had 14 children, and there are five bedrooms upon the second floor wing. The second floor next held a ballroom like a contact leading to the second floor porch. At one time, there were a total of nine doors, and four porches, and the hotel held a publicize office. It was complex moved to Crossroads Village in November of 1981 and the exterior was restored in 1986.