Kokomo, Indiana

Kokomo population, 2020 to 2024

Kokomo added 521 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +194. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Kokomo is 4.1 times that size.

Kokomo covers 36.68 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,638 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Kokomo is close to the typical town.

What county Kokomo is in

All of Kokomo's residents live in Howard County, which had 84,082 residents in 2024. Kokomo holds 71.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kokomo

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Kokomo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46901, 46902, 46965. 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 Kokomo is

The Census internal point of Kokomo is at 40.464000, -86.127300. Indianapolis, the capital, is 48.0 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Westfield, IN (62,994 people), 29.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Carmel, IN, 34.5 miles away.

Daylight in Kokomo

At 40.46° N, Kokomo gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kokomo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Russiaville, 8.3 miles away, with 1,314 people.