Capron, Illinois

Capron population, 2020 to 2024

Capron added 15 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +12.

Capron covers 0.77 square miles of land, for 1,821 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Capron is less dense than the typical town.

What county Capron is in

All of Capron's residents live in Boone County, which had 53,313 residents in 2024. Capron holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Capron

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Capron by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61012. 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 Capron is

The Census internal point of Capron is at 42.398800, -88.738700. Springfield, the capital, is 187.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Poplar Grove, IL (5,165 people), 6.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 19.2 miles away.

Daylight in Capron

At 42.40° N, Capron gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Capron

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Poplar Grove, 6.3 miles away, with 5,165 people.