Peru, Indiana

Peru population, 2020 to 2024

Peru added 63 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +26. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 71st; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Peru is 76% of it.

Peru covers 5.06 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 2,175 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Peru is denser than the typical town.

What county Peru is in

All of Peru's residents live in Miami County, which had 35,613 residents in 2024. Peru holds 30.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Peru

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Peru by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46970. 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 Peru is

The Census internal point of Peru is at 40.758700, -86.070600. Indianapolis, the capital, is 68.5 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Logansport, IN (18,168 people), 14.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 53.5 miles away.

Daylight in Peru

At 40.76° N, Peru gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Peru

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Wabash, 13.0 miles away, with 10,275 people.