Indiana · Census place 1816138

Crown Point, Indiana

Crown Point is a city in Lake County, Indiana with an estimated 35,097 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 29th largest of 299 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
35,097
#29 of 299 in Indiana
Change since 2020
+3.2%
+1,101 people
Land area
19.0 sq mi
+ 0.06 sq mi water
Density
1,846 / sq mi
State median 1,645
Orange pin: Crown Point. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Indianapolis.

Crown Point population, 2020 to 2024

Crown Point added 1,101 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +226. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 37th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Crown Point is 2.4 times that size.

34.0k202034.1k202134.6k202234.9k202335.1k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 33,899. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Crown Point covers 19.01 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,846 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Crown Point is denser than the typical town.

What county Crown Point is in

All of Crown Point's residents live in Lake County, which had 502,955 residents in 2024. Crown Point holds 7.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crown Point

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Crown Point by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46307. 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 Crown Point is

The Census internal point of Crown Point is at 41.409100, -87.347000. Indianapolis, the capital, is 129.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Merrillville, IN (36,989 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 34.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.409100, -87.347000
DMS
41°24'32.76"N 87°20'49.20"W
UTM
16N 470997.9E 4584230.7N
Geohash
dp3gs67c7
Plus code
86HJCM53+J6

Daylight in Crown Point

At 41.41° N, Crown Point gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Crown Point

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Winfield, 4.4 miles away, with 8,557 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Crown Point, IN?

35,097 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 1,101 (3.2%) from 33,996 in July 2020.

What county is Crown Point in?

Lake County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Crown Point?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 46307.

How far is Crown Point from Indianapolis?

129.4 miles (208.2 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Crown Point.

What is the nearest larger city to Crown Point?

Merrillville, IN, with 36,989 residents, 4.7 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.