Carol Stream, Illinois

Carol Stream population, 2020 to 2024

Carol Stream lost 204 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +307. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 146th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Carol Stream is 2.7 times that size.

Carol Stream covers 9.15 square miles of land and 0.32 of water, for 4,323 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Carol Stream is denser than the typical town.

What county Carol Stream is in

All of Carol Stream's residents live in DuPage County, which had 937,142 residents in 2024. Carol Stream holds 4.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carol Stream

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Carol Stream by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60188. 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 Carol Stream is

The Census internal point of Carol Stream is at 41.920300, -88.133200. Springfield, the capital, is 167.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bartlett, IL (40,718 people), 3.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Naperville, IL, 11.9 miles away.

Daylight in Carol Stream

At 41.92° N, Carol Stream gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carol Stream

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Glendale Heights, 2.8 miles away, with 32,866 people.