Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- County
- Lake
- Township
- North
- Settled
- 1850s
- Named after
- Jacob Munster
- Type
- Town
- Body
- Town Council
- Members
- George Shinkan ( R , 1st) Joe Hofferth ( R , 2nd) Chuck Gardiner ( R , 3rd) David Nellans ( R , 4th) Jonathan Petersen ( R , 5th)
- Clerk treasurer
- Wendy Mis ( R )
- Total
- 7.63 sq mi (19.75 km )
- Land
- 7.53 sq mi (19.51 km )
- Water
- 0.093 sq mi (0.24 km )
- Elevation
- 614 ft (187 m)
- Density
- 3,172.3/sq mi (1,224.83/km )
- Demonym
- Munsterite
- Per capita income
- $34,735
- Median home value
- $197,600
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Munster
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lake County
- Population
- 23894
- Area
- 19.816746
- Elevation
- 186
- Official website
- www.munster.org
- Households
- 8535
- Dialing code
- 219
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- Commons category
- Munster, Indiana
- postal code
- 46321
- inception
- 1907-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 1.0598
- per capita income
- 44926
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Munster is a suburban town in North Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is in the Chicago metropolitan area, approximately 30 miles (48 km) southeast of the Chicago Loop, and shares municipal boundaries with Hammond to the north, Highland to the east, Dyer and Schererville to the south, and Lansing and Lynwood directly west over the Illinois border. Its population was 23,894 at the 2020 US Census.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Munster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.