Danville, Illinois

Danville population, 2020 to 2024

Danville lost 1,146 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.9%. In the latest year it moved by -180. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 328th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Danville is 1.9 times that size.

Danville covers 17.86 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,567 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Danville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Danville is in

All of Danville's residents live in Vermilion County, which had 71,106 residents in 2024. Danville holds 39.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Danville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Danville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61832, 61834. 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 Danville is

The Census internal point of Danville is at 40.142600, -87.610700. Springfield, the capital, is 110.8 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Urbana, IL (39,831 people), 31.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Carmel, IN, 78.3 miles away.

Daylight in Danville

At 40.14° N, Danville gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Danville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Tilton, 3.7 miles away, with 2,533 people.