Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington population, 2020 to 2024

Bloomington added 540 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +280. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 80th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Bloomington is 5.4 times that size.

Bloomington covers 27.11 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 2,923 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Bloomington is denser than the typical town.

What county Bloomington is in

All of Bloomington's residents live in McLean County, which had 172,069 residents in 2024. Bloomington holds 46.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bloomington

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bloomington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61701, 61704, 61705. 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 Bloomington is

The Census internal point of Bloomington is at 40.475800, -88.969900. Springfield, the capital, is 60.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Peoria, IL (111,696 people), 39.0 miles away.

Daylight in Bloomington

At 40.48° N, Bloomington gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bloomington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Normal, 3.3 miles away, with 53,304 people.