Bluffton, Indiana

Bluffton population, 2020 to 2024

Bluffton added 245 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +61. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Bluffton is 72% of it.

Bluffton covers 8.53 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,238 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Bluffton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bluffton is in

All of Bluffton's residents live in Wells County, which had 28,798 residents in 2024. Bluffton holds 36.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bluffton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bluffton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46714. 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 Bluffton is

The Census internal point of Bluffton is at 40.743500, -85.172100. Indianapolis, the capital, is 85.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huntington, IN (17,033 people), 19.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 23.9 miles away.

Daylight in Bluffton

At 40.74° N, Bluffton gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bluffton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Ossian, 9.2 miles away, with 3,438 people.