Dayton, Indiana

Dayton population, 2020 to 2024

Dayton added 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.3%. In the latest year it moved by +4.

Dayton covers 1.15 square miles of land, for 1,193 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Dayton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dayton is in

All of Dayton's residents live in Tippecanoe County, which had 191,650 residents in 2024. Dayton holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dayton

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Dayton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 47905, 47941. 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 Dayton is

The Census internal point of Dayton is at 40.375200, -86.774000. Indianapolis, the capital, is 53.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lafayette, IN (71,757 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Carmel, IN, 43.5 miles away.

Daylight in Dayton

At 40.38° N, Dayton gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dayton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Lafayette, 5.0 miles away, with 71,757 people.