Portage, Indiana

Portage population, 2020 to 2024

Portage added 613 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +80. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 54th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Portage is 2.6 times that size.

Portage covers 25.63 square miles of land and 2.08 of water, for 1,505 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Portage is close to the typical town.

What county Portage is in

All of Portage's residents live in Porter County, which had 175,860 residents in 2024. Portage holds 21.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portage

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Portage by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46368, 46403. 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 Portage is

The Census internal point of Portage is at 41.591600, -87.178900. Indianapolis, the capital, is 136.8 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gary, IN (67,555 people), 8.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 31.1 miles away.

Daylight in Portage

At 41.59° N, Portage gets about 15 h 12 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 Portage

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Ogden Dunes, 2.7 miles away, with 1,172 people.