Illinois · Census place 1706756

Blue Mound, Illinois

Blue Mound is a village in Macon County, Illinois with an estimated 1,090 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 627th largest of 651 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,090
#627 of 651 in Illinois
Change since 2020
-3.5%
-40 people
Land area
0.6 sq mi
Density
1,847 / sq mi
State median 2,177
Orange pin: Blue Mound. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Springfield.

Blue Mound population, 2020 to 2024

Blue Mound lost 40 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.5%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

1,13020201,11520211,10020221,09220231,0902024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,132. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Blue Mound covers 0.59 square miles of land, for 1,847 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Blue Mound is less dense than the typical town.

What county Blue Mound is in

All of Blue Mound's residents live in Macon County, which had 100,737 residents in 2024. Blue Mound holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blue Mound

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blue Mound by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 62513. 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 Blue Mound is

The Census internal point of Blue Mound is at 39.700600, -89.118500. Springfield, the capital, is 28.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Macon, IL (1,133 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 28.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
39.700600, -89.118500
DMS
39°42'2.16"N 89°07'6.60"W
UTM
16N 318370.5E 4396673.1N
Geohash
dp09u53bu
Plus code
86FGPV2J+6J

Daylight in Blue Mound

At 39.70° N, Blue Mound 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 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blue Mound

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Macon, 6.5 miles away, with 1,133 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Blue Mound, IL?

1,090 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 40 (3.5%) from 1,130 in July 2020.

What county is Blue Mound in?

Macon County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Blue Mound?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 62513.

How far is Blue Mound from Springfield?

28.8 miles (46.3 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Blue Mound.

What is the nearest larger city to Blue Mound?

Macon, IL, with 1,133 residents, 6.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.