Du Quoin, Illinois

Du Quoin population, 2020 to 2024

Du Quoin lost 200 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -69. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 325th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Du Quoin is 38% of it.

Du Quoin covers 6.98 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 804 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Du Quoin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Du Quoin is in

All of Du Quoin's residents live in Perry County, which had 20,272 residents in 2024. Du Quoin holds 27.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Du Quoin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Du Quoin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62832. 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 Du Quoin is

The Census internal point of Du Quoin is at 38.001700, -89.232800. Springfield, the capital, is 125.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Murphysboro, IL (7,044 people), 17.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 70.2 miles away.

Daylight in Du Quoin

At 38.00° N, Du Quoin gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Du Quoin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Pinckneyville, 7.8 miles away, with 4,963 people.