Greencastle, Indiana

Greencastle population, 2020 to 2024

Greencastle added 88 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +7. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 68th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Greencastle is 68% of it.

Greencastle covers 5.21 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,902 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Greencastle is denser than the typical town.

What county Greencastle is in

All of Greencastle's residents live in Putnam County, which had 37,804 residents in 2024. Greencastle holds 26.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Greencastle

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Greencastle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46135. 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 Greencastle is

The Census internal point of Greencastle is at 39.641800, -86.846300. Indianapolis, the capital, is 37.6 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Danville, IN (12,532 people), 20.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Indianapolis, IN, 38.4 miles away.

Daylight in Greencastle

At 39.64° N, Greencastle gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Greencastle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Cloverdale, 8.7 miles away, with 2,172 people.