Rochester, Indiana

Rochester population, 2020 to 2024

Rochester lost 162 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.6%. In the latest year it moved by -101. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 126th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Rochester is 42% of it.

Rochester covers 4.57 square miles of land and 1.11 of water, for 1,337 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Rochester is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rochester is in

All of Rochester's residents live in Fulton County, which had 20,004 residents in 2024. Rochester holds 30.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rochester

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rochester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46975. 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 Rochester is

The Census internal point of Rochester is at 41.060400, -86.198300. Indianapolis, the capital, is 89.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Plymouth, IN (11,042 people), 20.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Bend, IN, 42.8 miles away.

Daylight in Rochester

At 41.06° N, Rochester gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rochester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Akron, 9.2 miles away, with 1,091 people.