Coal City, Illinois

Coal City population, 2020 to 2024

Coal City added 109 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +23. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Coal City is 39% of it.

Coal City covers 5.77 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,007 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Coal City is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Coal City spans

Coal City crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 5,810 residents as follows; Grundy County holds 99.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Coal City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Coal City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60407, 60416. 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 Coal City is

The Census internal point of Coal City is at 41.278900, -88.280100. Springfield, the capital, is 126.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Braidwood, IL (6,245 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 17.8 miles away.

Daylight in Coal City

At 41.28° N, Coal City gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Coal City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Diamond, 1.6 miles away, with 2,702 people.