Hobart, Indiana

Hobart population, 2020 to 2024

Hobart lost 301 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +18. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 106th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Hobart is 2.0 times that size.

Hobart covers 26.20 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 1,123 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Hobart is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hobart is in

All of Hobart's residents live in Lake County, which had 502,955 residents in 2024. Hobart holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hobart

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hobart by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46342, 46410. 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 Hobart is

The Census internal point of Hobart is at 41.513500, -87.276400. Indianapolis, the capital, is 134.0 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Merrillville, IN (36,989 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 30.7 miles away.

Daylight in Hobart

At 41.51° N, Hobart 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 Hobart

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is New Chicago, 3.1 miles away, with 1,976 people.