Cedar Lake, Indiana

Cedar Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Cedar Lake added 2,201 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +15.5%. In the latest year it moved by +340. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 11th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Cedar Lake is 1.1 times that size.

Cedar Lake covers 9.45 square miles of land and 1.42 of water, for 1,736 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Cedar Lake is close to the typical town.

What county Cedar Lake is in

All of Cedar Lake's residents live in Lake County, which had 502,955 residents in 2024. Cedar Lake holds 3.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cedar Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cedar Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 46303. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Cedar Lake is

The Census internal point of Cedar Lake is at 41.372300, -87.442000. Indianapolis, the capital, is 129.7 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. John, IN (24,250 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 34.5 miles away.

Daylight in Cedar Lake

At 41.37° N, Cedar Lake gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cedar Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is St. John, 5.0 miles away, with 24,250 people.