Chicago Heights, Illinois

Chicago Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Chicago Heights lost 838 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +145. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 306th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Chicago Heights is 1.8 times that size.

Chicago Heights covers 10.37 square miles of land, for 2,559 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Chicago Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Chicago Heights is in

All of Chicago Heights's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Chicago Heights holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chicago Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chicago Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60411. 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 Chicago Heights is

The Census internal point of Chicago Heights is at 41.510700, -87.634100. Springfield, the capital, is 159.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lansing, IL (28,107 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 22.7 miles away.

Daylight in Chicago Heights

At 41.51° N, Chicago Heights gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chicago Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is South Chicago Heights, 1.9 miles away, with 3,887 people.