Muncie, Indiana

Muncie population, 2020 to 2024

Muncie added 220 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +175. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 77th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Muncie is 4.5 times that size.

Muncie covers 27.40 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 2,384 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Muncie is denser than the typical town.

What county Muncie is in

All of Muncie's residents live in Delaware County, which had 112,951 residents in 2024. Muncie holds 57.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Muncie

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Muncie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47302, 47303, 47304, 47305, 47306. 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 Muncie is

The Census internal point of Muncie is at 40.198800, -85.395100. Indianapolis, the capital, is 50.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Noblesville, IN (75,239 people), 34.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fishers, IN, 34.4 miles away.

Daylight in Muncie

At 40.20° N, Muncie gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Muncie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Yorktown, 6.1 miles away, with 11,900 people.