Downers Grove, Illinois

Downers Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Downers Grove added 370 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +422. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 79th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Downers Grove is 3.4 times that size.

Downers Grove covers 14.65 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 3,451 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Downers Grove is denser than the typical town.

What county Downers Grove is in

All of Downers Grove's residents live in DuPage County, which had 937,142 residents in 2024. Downers Grove holds 5.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Downers Grove

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Downers Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60515, 60516. 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 Downers Grove is

The Census internal point of Downers Grove is at 41.795000, -88.021100. Springfield, the capital, is 163.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wheaton, IL (53,741 people), 6.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Naperville, IL, 7.9 miles away.

Daylight in Downers Grove

At 41.80° N, Downers Grove gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Downers Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Westmont, 2.5 miles away, with 24,308 people.