Dixon, Illinois

Dixon population, 2020 to 2024

Dixon lost 210 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -27. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 186th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Dixon is 1.0 times that size.

Dixon covers 9.51 square miles of land and 0.31 of water, for 1,594 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Dixon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dixon is in

All of Dixon's residents live in Lee County, which had 33,544 residents in 2024. Dixon holds 45.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dixon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dixon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61021. 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 Dixon is

The Census internal point of Dixon is at 41.843300, -89.477500. Springfield, the capital, is 142.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Freeport, IL (23,140 people), 31.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 35.7 miles away.

Daylight in Dixon

At 41.84° N, Dixon gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dixon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Polo, 11.1 miles away, with 2,238 people.