Schererville, Indiana

Schererville population, 2020 to 2024

Schererville added 117 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +124. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 74th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Schererville is 2.0 times that size.

Schererville covers 15.11 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,971 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Schererville is denser than the typical town.

What county Schererville is in

All of Schererville's residents live in Lake County, which had 502,955 residents in 2024. Schererville holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Schererville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Schererville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 46307, 46375. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Schererville is

The Census internal point of Schererville is at 41.485200, -87.443400. Indianapolis, the capital, is 136.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Merrillville, IN (36,989 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 27.3 miles away.

Daylight in Schererville

At 41.49° N, Schererville gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Schererville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Griffith, 3.1 miles away, with 16,192 people.