Lake Station, Indiana

Lake Station population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Station lost 234 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -13. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 117th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Lake Station is 89% of it.

Lake Station covers 8.29 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,572 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Lake Station is close to the typical town.

What county Lake Station is in

All of Lake Station's residents live in Lake County, which had 502,955 residents in 2024. Lake Station holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Station

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Station by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46405. 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 Lake Station is

The Census internal point of Lake Station is at 41.576700, -87.252900. Indianapolis, the capital, is 137.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portage, IN (38,576 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 28.6 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Station

At 41.58° N, Lake Station gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Station

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is New Chicago, 1.6 miles away, with 1,976 people.