Mitchell, Indiana

Mitchell population, 2020 to 2024

Mitchell added 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +24.

Mitchell covers 3.59 square miles of land, for 1,104 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Mitchell is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mitchell is in

All of Mitchell's residents live in Lawrence County, which had 45,192 residents in 2024. Mitchell holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mitchell

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mitchell by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47446. 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 Mitchell is

The Census internal point of Mitchell is at 38.737100, -86.475200. Indianapolis, the capital, is 73.3 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bedford, IN (13,853 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 59.7 miles away.

Daylight in Mitchell

At 38.74° N, Mitchell gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mitchell

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Orleans, 5.4 miles away, with 2,077 people.