Princeton, Indiana

Princeton population, 2020 to 2024

Princeton added 169 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +74. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Princeton is 58% of it.

Princeton covers 5.48 square miles of land, for 1,548 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Princeton is close to the typical town.

What county Princeton is in

All of Princeton's residents live in Gibson County, which had 33,038 residents in 2024. Princeton holds 25.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Princeton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Princeton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47670. 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 Princeton is

The Census internal point of Princeton is at 38.354500, -87.579500. Indianapolis, the capital, is 124.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Vincennes, IN (16,506 people), 22.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Evansville, IN, 25.5 miles away.

Daylight in Princeton

At 38.35° N, Princeton gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Princeton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Fort Branch, 7.5 miles away, with 2,935 people.