Batavia, Illinois

Batavia population, 2020 to 2024

Batavia added 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +9. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 104th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Batavia is 1.8 times that size.

Batavia covers 10.95 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 2,425 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Batavia is denser than the typical town.

What county Batavia is in

All of Batavia's residents live in Kane County, which had 520,997 residents in 2024. Batavia holds 5.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Batavia

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Batavia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60510, 60539. 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 Batavia is

The Census internal point of Batavia is at 41.847700, -88.311000. Springfield, the capital, is 159.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Charles, IL (33,482 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Aurora, IL, 5.9 miles away.

Daylight in Batavia

At 41.85° N, Batavia gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Batavia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Geneva, 2.6 miles away, with 21,168 people.