Des Plaines, Illinois

Des Plaines population, 2020 to 2024

Des Plaines lost 1,624 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +367. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 265th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Des Plaines is 4.0 times that size.

Des Plaines covers 14.24 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 4,131 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Des Plaines is denser than the typical town.

What county Des Plaines is in

All of Des Plaines's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Des Plaines holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Des Plaines

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Des Plaines by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60016, 60018. 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 Des Plaines is

The Census internal point of Des Plaines is at 42.034400, -87.901100. Springfield, the capital, is 180.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Arlington Heights, IL (75,596 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 17.6 miles away.

Daylight in Des Plaines

At 42.03° N, Des Plaines gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Des Plaines

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Prospect, 2.8 miles away, with 55,460 people.