Downs, Illinois

Downs population, 2020 to 2024

Downs lost 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -1.

Downs covers 3.00 square miles of land, for 395 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Downs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Downs is in

All of Downs's residents live in McLean County, which had 172,069 residents in 2024. Downs holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Downs

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Downs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61705, 61736. 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 Downs is

The Census internal point of Downs is at 40.398800, -88.889200. Springfield, the capital, is 58.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bloomington, IL (79,232 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Peoria, IL, 45.3 miles away.

Daylight in Downs

At 40.40° N, Downs gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Downs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Bloomington, 6.8 miles away, with 79,232 people.