Munster, Indiana

Munster population, 2020 to 2024

Munster lost 252 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +19. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 107th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Munster is 1.6 times that size.

Munster covers 7.54 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 3,134 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Munster is denser than the typical town.

What county Munster is in

All of Munster's residents live in Lake County, which had 502,955 residents in 2024. Munster holds 4.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Munster

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Munster by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 46321. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Munster is

The Census internal point of Munster is at 41.546900, -87.504600. Indianapolis, the capital, is 141.7 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lansing, IL (28,107 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 22.1 miles away.

Daylight in Munster

At 41.55° N, Munster 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 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Munster

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Highland, 2.4 miles away, with 23,497 people.