Blue Island, Illinois

Blue Island population, 2020 to 2024

Blue Island lost 665 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +132. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 294th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Blue Island is 1.5 times that size.

Blue Island covers 4.07 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 5,357 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Blue Island is denser than the typical town.

What county Blue Island is in

All of Blue Island's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Blue Island holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blue Island

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blue Island by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60406. 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 Blue Island is

The Census internal point of Blue Island is at 41.657600, -87.681100. Springfield, the capital, is 165.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Forest, IL (26,813 people), 5.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 12.4 miles away.

Daylight in Blue Island

At 41.66° N, Blue Island gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blue Island

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Calumet Park, 1.3 miles away, with 6,777 people.