Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale population, 2020 to 2024

Carbondale lost 40 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +121. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 120th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Carbondale is 1.5 times that size.

Carbondale covers 17.48 square miles of land and 0.44 of water, for 1,271 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Carbondale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Carbondale is in

All of Carbondale's residents live in Jackson County, which had 53,199 residents in 2024. Carbondale holds 41.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carbondale

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Carbondale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62901, 62902, 62903. 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 Carbondale is

The Census internal point of Carbondale is at 37.722100, -89.223700. Springfield, the capital, is 144.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cape Girardeau, MO (40,818 people), 33.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 84.0 miles away.

Daylight in Carbondale

At 37.72° N, Carbondale gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carbondale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is De Soto, 6.5 miles away, with 1,408 people.