Griffith, Indiana

Griffith population, 2020 to 2024

Griffith lost 331 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -30. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 120th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Griffith is 1.1 times that size.

Griffith covers 7.77 square miles of land, for 2,084 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Griffith is denser than the typical town.

What county Griffith is in

All of Griffith's residents live in Lake County, which had 502,955 residents in 2024. Griffith holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Griffith

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Griffith by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 46319. 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 Griffith is

The Census internal point of Griffith is at 41.527600, -87.423900. Indianapolis, the capital, is 138.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Highland, IN (23,497 people), 2.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 25.3 miles away.

Daylight in Griffith

At 41.53° N, Griffith gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Griffith

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Highland, 2.2 miles away, with 23,497 people.