Benld, Illinois

Benld population, 2020 to 2024

Benld lost 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.0%. In the latest year it moved by -12.

Benld covers 1.06 square miles of land, for 1,327 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Benld is less dense than the typical town.

What county Benld is in

All of Benld's residents live in Macoupin County, which had 43,895 residents in 2024. Benld holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Benld

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Benld by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62009. 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 Benld is

The Census internal point of Benld is at 39.093000, -89.802300. Springfield, the capital, is 48.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gillespie, IL (3,087 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 39.6 miles away.

Daylight in Benld

At 39.09° N, Benld gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Benld

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Gillespie, 2.4 miles away, with 3,087 people.