Suburban freight grouping

I-65 Merrillville and Crown Point

County	Lake
Roads	I-65, US-30
Rail ramps	Dolton (Yard Center) (9.6 mi) Harvey (Gateway) (10.3 mi)
Defined by	Chi Pallets grouping

Towns in I-65 Merrillville and Crown Point (filled), county lines (dashed) and rail ramps (squares).

I-65 Merrillville and Crown Point groups 6 neighbouring towns along I-65 and US-30: Merrillville, Hobart, Crown Point, Schererville, Griffith and Highland. Together they had about 170,973 residents in the Census Bureau's 2024 estimates. The closest intermodal rail ramp is Dolton (Yard Center), 9.6 mi away.

Towns in this grouping

170,973

Residents, July 2024 estimate^[2]

9.6 mi

To Dolton (Yard Center) rail ramp^[3]

Towns in I-65 Merrillville and Crown Point
Town	County
Merrillville	Lake
Hobart	Lake
Crown Point	Lake
Schererville	Lake
Griffith	Lake
Highland	Lake

Rail ramps near I-65 Merrillville and Crown Point

Closest intermodal rail ramps (straight-line miles from the nearest edge)
Ramp	Distance
Dolton (Yard Center)	9.6 mi
Harvey (Gateway)	10.3 mi
Calumet	12.6 mi

Intermodal ramps are where containers and trailers move between rail and truck. Distance to one is a rough guide to how close an area sits to container freight. It is not a measure of pallet supply, and this site does not treat it as one.

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Sources

CMAP Community Data Snapshots 2026. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Population from the 2020 Census (P.L. 94-171); jobs located in the place from LEHD 2023 (primary jobs); private-sector jobs from IDES Where Workers Work 2025; land use from the CMAP 2023 Land Use Inventory; industrial equalized assessed value from the Illinois Department of Revenue, 2024.
Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates. Subcounty resident population estimates, July 1, 2024 (file sub-est2024.csv).
BTS National Transportation Atlas Database: Intermodal Freight Facilities, Rail TOFC/COFC. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, compiled 2018 and updated July 2022. Distances are straight-line miles from the place's internal point to the facility point.
Census Bureau cartographic boundary files, 2023. 1:500,000 county and place boundaries, simplified for the maps. Bordering towns are those whose boundaries come within about 0.1 mile of each other.
Natural Earth 1:10m lakes. Lake Michigan outline for the maps. Public domain.

Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Not legal advice and not a price quote. See how the figures are built.