Bedford, Indiana

Bedford population, 2020 to 2024

Bedford added 51 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +22. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 75th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Bedford is 95% of it.

Bedford covers 12.21 square miles of land, for 1,135 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Bedford is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bedford is in

All of Bedford's residents live in Lawrence County, which had 45,192 residents in 2024. Bedford holds 30.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bedford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bedford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47421. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bedford is

The Census internal point of Bedford is at 38.860200, -86.489500. Indianapolis, the capital, is 65.2 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bloomington, IN (79,986 people), 21.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Indianapolis, IN, 65.9 miles away.

Daylight in Bedford

At 38.86° N, Bedford gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bedford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Oolitic, 3.0 miles away, with 1,136 people.