Valparaiso, Indiana

Valparaiso population, 2020 to 2024

Valparaiso added 895 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +444. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Valparaiso is 2.4 times that size.

Valparaiso covers 17.14 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 2,046 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Valparaiso is denser than the typical town.

What county Valparaiso is in

All of Valparaiso's residents live in Porter County, which had 175,860 residents in 2024. Valparaiso holds 19.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Valparaiso

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Valparaiso by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46383, 46385. 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 Valparaiso is

The Census internal point of Valparaiso is at 41.479800, -87.052300. Indianapolis, the capital, is 127.2 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portage, IN (38,576 people), 10.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 40.9 miles away.

Daylight in Valparaiso

At 41.48° N, Valparaiso 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 Valparaiso

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Chesterton, 8.3 miles away, with 14,655 people.