Chesterton, Indiana

Chesterton population, 2020 to 2024

Chesterton added 382 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +4. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Chesterton is 1.0 times that size.

Chesterton covers 9.41 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,557 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Chesterton is close to the typical town.

What county Chesterton is in

All of Chesterton's residents live in Porter County, which had 175,860 residents in 2024. Chesterton holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chesterton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chesterton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 46304. 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 Chesterton is

The Census internal point of Chesterton is at 41.599800, -87.055000. Indianapolis, the capital, is 134.9 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portage, IN (38,576 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 36.4 miles away.

Daylight in Chesterton

At 41.60° N, Chesterton gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chesterton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Porter, 2.4 miles away, with 5,190 people.