Charlestown, Indiana

Charlestown population, 2020 to 2024

Charlestown added 715 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.1%. In the latest year it moved by +62. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Charlestown is 59% of it.

Charlestown covers 11.45 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 748 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Charlestown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Charlestown is in

All of Charlestown's residents live in Clark County, which had 127,479 residents in 2024. Charlestown holds 6.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Charlestown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Charlestown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47111. 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 Charlestown is

The Census internal point of Charlestown is at 38.429800, -85.670400. Indianapolis, the capital, is 96.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sellersburg, IN (10,057 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 18.3 miles away.

Daylight in Charlestown

At 38.43° N, Charlestown gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Charlestown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Sellersburg, 6.0 miles away, with 10,057 people.