Petersburg, Indiana

Petersburg population, 2020 to 2024

Petersburg lost 26 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

Petersburg covers 1.58 square miles of land, for 1,436 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Petersburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Petersburg is in

All of Petersburg's residents live in Pike County, which had 12,116 residents in 2024. Petersburg holds 18.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Petersburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Petersburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47567. 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 Petersburg is

The Census internal point of Petersburg is at 38.491900, -87.282300. Indianapolis, the capital, is 106.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Washington, IN (12,881 people), 13.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Evansville, IN, 37.4 miles away.

Daylight in Petersburg

At 38.49° N, Petersburg gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Petersburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Oakland City, 11.2 miles away, with 2,269 people.