Illinois · Census place 1701010

Alsip, Illinois

Alsip is a village in Cook County, Illinois with an estimated 18,486 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 137th largest of 651 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
18,486
#137 of 651 in Illinois
Change since 2020
-2.7%
-513 people
Land area
6.5 sq mi
+ 0.10 sq mi water
Density
2,831 / sq mi
State median 2,177
Orange pin: Alsip. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Springfield.

Alsip population, 2020 to 2024

Alsip lost 513 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +137. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 266th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Alsip is 1.3 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 19,071. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Alsip covers 6.53 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 2,831 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Alsip is denser than the typical town.

What county Alsip is in

All of Alsip's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Alsip holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alsip

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alsip by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60803. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alsip is

The Census internal point of Alsip is at 41.670300, -87.737100. Springfield, the capital, is 164.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Blue Island, IL (21,805 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 11.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.670300, -87.737100
DMS
41°40'13.08"N 87°44'13.56"W
UTM
16N 438640.8E 4613433.5N
Geohash
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Plus code
86HJM7C7+45

Daylight in Alsip

At 41.67° N, Alsip gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alsip

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Crestwood, 1.7 miles away, with 10,533 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Alsip, IL?

18,486 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 513 (2.7%) from 18,999 in July 2020.

What county is Alsip in?

Cook County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Alsip?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 60803.

How far is Alsip from Springfield?

164.5 miles (264.8 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Alsip.

What is the nearest larger city to Alsip?

Blue Island, IL, with 21,805 residents, 3.0 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.