Kouts is a town in Pleasant Township, Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 2,028 at the 2020 census. Since 2010, Kouts has had a population mass of 7.90 percent.

Bernhardt Kautz moved here from Pennsylvania, before the initiation of the railroads, and time-honored a farm where the town now sits. With the coming on of the Chicago and St. Louis Railway in 1865, Kautz and his brother-in-law H.A. Wright laid out the town and received a store. Known as Kouts Station, the town grew slowly until the Chicago and Erie Railroad intersected the heritage in Kouts. Soon, Kouts became the social and economic center of the township.

Kouts would remain an important railroad town throughout the first half of the 20th century continuing to be served by the Erie Lackawanna Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Railroad traffic in the town began to fade away following the bankruptcy of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s successor, the Penn Central and the initiation of Conrail. As the as a consequence bankrupt Erie Lackawanna would similarly be absorbed into the additional company. The surplus of Conrail track through Kouts would help to a decline in both traffic and profitability. The pathway of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 allowed for U.S railways to give up unprofitable lines, which Conrail would accept advantage of in Kouts. First taking into account the Erie Lackawanna tracks in 1981 and then the Pennsylvania tracks in 1984. Currently there are little remnants of Kouts railroading afterward except for the former Pennsylvania Railroad depot which has been converted into a private business.

According to the 2010 census, Kouts has a total area of 1.12 square miles (2.90 km), all land.