Columbus, Indiana

Columbus population, 2020 to 2024

Columbus added 1,475 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +288. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 40th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Columbus is 3.6 times that size.

Columbus covers 28.67 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 1,813 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Columbus is denser than the typical town.

What county Columbus is in

All of Columbus's residents live in Bartholomew County, which had 84,741 residents in 2024. Columbus holds 61.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Columbus

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Columbus by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47201, 47203. 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 Columbus is

The Census internal point of Columbus is at 39.208700, -85.919100. Indianapolis, the capital, is 40.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenwood, IN (68,175 people), 29.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Indianapolis, IN, 41.1 miles away.

Daylight in Columbus

At 39.21° N, Columbus gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Columbus

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Edinburgh, 10.2 miles away, with 4,478 people.