Beardstown, Illinois

Beardstown population, 2020 to 2024

Beardstown lost 121 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -30. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 225th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Beardstown is 39% of it.

Beardstown covers 3.66 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,586 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Beardstown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Beardstown is in

All of Beardstown's residents live in Cass County, which had 12,713 residents in 2024. Beardstown holds 45.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Beardstown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Beardstown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62618. 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 Beardstown is

The Census internal point of Beardstown is at 40.010100, -90.431100. Springfield, the capital, is 44.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jacksonville, IL (17,801 people), 22.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 44.4 miles away.

Daylight in Beardstown

At 40.01° N, Beardstown gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Beardstown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Rushville, 10.4 miles away, with 2,904 people.