Bethany, Illinois

Bethany population, 2020 to 2024

Bethany lost 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.2%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Bethany covers 0.98 square miles of land, for 1,222 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Bethany is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bethany is in

All of Bethany's residents live in Moultrie County, which had 14,365 residents in 2024. Bethany holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bethany

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bethany by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61914. 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 Bethany is

The Census internal point of Bethany is at 39.644200, -88.740900. Springfield, the capital, is 49.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sullivan, IL (4,298 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 49.1 miles away.

Daylight in Bethany

At 39.64° N, Bethany gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bethany

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Lovington, 7.5 miles away, with 1,020 people.