Carlinville, Illinois

Carlinville population, 2020 to 2024

Carlinville lost 182 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -36. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 316th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Carlinville is 38% of it.

Carlinville covers 3.37 square miles of land, for 1,656 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Carlinville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Carlinville is in

All of Carlinville's residents live in Macoupin County, which had 43,895 residents in 2024. Carlinville holds 12.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carlinville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Carlinville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62626. 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 Carlinville is

The Census internal point of Carlinville is at 39.277500, -89.876100. Springfield, the capital, is 36.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Litchfield, IL (6,587 people), 13.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 37.6 miles away.

Daylight in Carlinville

At 39.28° N, Carlinville gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carlinville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Gillespie, 11.0 miles away, with 3,087 people.