Amboy, Illinois

Amboy population, 2020 to 2024

Amboy lost 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

Amboy covers 6.21 square miles of land, for 358 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Amboy is less dense than the typical town.

What county Amboy is in

All of Amboy's residents live in Lee County, which had 33,544 residents in 2024. Amboy holds 6.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Amboy

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Amboy by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61021, 61310. 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 Amboy is

The Census internal point of Amboy is at 41.715900, -89.340900. Springfield, the capital, is 134.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dixon, IL (15,156 people), 11.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 40.1 miles away.

Daylight in Amboy

At 41.72° N, Amboy gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Amboy

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Dixon, 11.3 miles away, with 15,156 people.