Cerro Gordo, Illinois

Cerro Gordo population, 2020 to 2024

Cerro Gordo lost 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -13.

Cerro Gordo covers 0.73 square miles of land, for 1,774 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Cerro Gordo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cerro Gordo is in

All of Cerro Gordo's residents live in Piatt County, which had 16,628 residents in 2024. Cerro Gordo holds 7.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cerro Gordo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cerro Gordo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61818. 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 Cerro Gordo is

The Census internal point of Cerro Gordo is at 39.889200, -88.734500. Springfield, the capital, is 49.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bement, IL (1,452 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 48.8 miles away.

Daylight in Cerro Gordo

At 39.89° N, Cerro Gordo gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cerro Gordo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Long Creek, 8.3 miles away, with 1,232 people.