Cary, Illinois

Cary population, 2020 to 2024

Cary added 221 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +18. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 59th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Cary is 1.2 times that size.

Cary covers 6.53 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,761 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Cary is denser than the typical town.

What county Cary is in

All of Cary's residents live in McHenry County, which had 315,959 residents in 2024. Cary holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cary

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cary by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60013. 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 Cary is

The Census internal point of Cary is at 42.212100, -88.249600. Springfield, the capital, is 183.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake in the Hills, IL (28,706 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 12.6 miles away.

Daylight in Cary

At 42.21° N, Cary gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cary

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Fox River Grove, 2.1 miles away, with 4,747 people.