Illinois · Census place 1720292

Dolton, Illinois

Dolton is a village in Cook County, Illinois with an estimated 20,697 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 119th largest of 651 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
20,697
#119 of 651 in Illinois
Change since 2020
-3.0%
-638 people
Land area
4.6 sq mi
+ 0.12 sq mi water
Density
4,529 / sq mi
State median 2,177
Orange pin: Dolton. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Springfield.

Dolton population, 2020 to 2024

Dolton lost 638 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +120. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 298th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Dolton is 1.4 times that size.

21.3k202020.9k202120.7k202220.6k202320.7k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 21,418. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Dolton covers 4.57 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 4,529 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Dolton is denser than the typical town.

What county Dolton is in

All of Dolton's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Dolton holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dolton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dolton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60419. 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 Dolton is

The Census internal point of Dolton is at 41.630300, -87.596800. Springfield, the capital, is 167.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Holland, IL (20,775 people), 2.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 15.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.630300, -87.596800
DMS
41°37'49.08"N 87°35'48.48"W
UTM
16N 450289.3E 4608902.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
86HJJCJ3+47

Daylight in Dolton

At 41.63° N, Dolton gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dolton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Phoenix, 2.2 miles away, with 1,650 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Dolton, IL?

20,697 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 638 (3.0%) from 21,335 in July 2020.

What county is Dolton in?

Cook County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Dolton?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 60419.

How far is Dolton from Springfield?

167.0 miles (268.8 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Dolton.

What is the nearest larger city to Dolton?

South Holland, IL, with 20,775 residents, 2.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.