Crete, Illinois

Crete population, 2020 to 2024

Crete lost 63 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +22. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 157th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Crete is 57% of it.

Crete covers 9.45 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 886 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Crete is less dense than the typical town.

What county Crete is in

All of Crete's residents live in Will County, which had 708,583 residents in 2024. Crete holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crete

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Crete by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60417. 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 Crete is

The Census internal point of Crete is at 41.440500, -87.624500. Springfield, the capital, is 156.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Steger, IL (9,376 people), 2.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 27.6 miles away.

Daylight in Crete

At 41.44° N, Crete gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Crete

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Steger, 2.2 miles away, with 9,376 people.