Bendon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Benzie County in the U.S. State of Michigan.

Bendon's eastern border is the Grand Traverse County line.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Bendon CDP has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2), all land.

[5] The settlement developed around a sawmill and was first named "Kentville" after Albert Kent, a farmer who became the first postmaster on April 24, 1888.

[6][7] The community of Bendon was listed as a newly organized census-designated place for the 2010 census, meaning it now has officially defined boundaries and population statistics for the first time.