Albion, Illinois

Albion population, 2020 to 2024

Albion lost 73 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -12.

Albion covers 2.14 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 873 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Albion is less dense than the typical town.

What county Albion is in

All of Albion's residents live in Edwards County, which had 5,984 residents in 2024. Albion holds 31.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Albion

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Albion by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62806. 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 Albion is

The Census internal point of Albion is at 38.376600, -88.057600. Springfield, the capital, is 129.3 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Carmel, IL (6,771 people), 15.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Evansville, IN, 39.1 miles away.

Daylight in Albion

At 38.38° N, Albion gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Albion

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Grayville, 9.0 miles away, with 1,502 people.