Thorntown, Indiana

Thorntown population, 2020 to 2024

Thorntown lost 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +13.

Thorntown covers 0.61 square miles of land, for 2,341 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Thorntown is denser than the typical town.

What county Thorntown is in

All of Thorntown's residents live in Boone County, which had 78,773 residents in 2024. Thorntown holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Thorntown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Thorntown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 46071. 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 Thorntown is

The Census internal point of Thorntown is at 40.129200, -86.610000. Indianapolis, the capital, is 34.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lebanon, IN (17,608 people), 10.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Carmel, IN, 26.9 miles away.

Daylight in Thorntown

At 40.13° N, Thorntown gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Thorntown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Lebanon, 10.8 miles away, with 17,608 people.