East St. Louis, Illinois

East St. Louis population, 2020 to 2024

East St. Louis lost 593 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +99. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 318th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so East St. Louis is 1.2 times that size.

East St. Louis covers 13.93 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 1,278 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so East St. Louis is less dense than the typical town.

What county East St. Louis is in

All of East St. Louis's residents live in St. Clair County, which had 251,149 residents in 2024. East St. Louis holds 7.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in East St. Louis

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap East St. Louis by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62201, 62203, 62204, 62205, 62207. 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 East St. Louis is

The Census internal point of East St. Louis is at 38.616400, -90.130500. Springfield, the capital, is 84.5 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Louis, MO (279,695 people), 6.3 miles away.

Daylight in East St. Louis

At 38.62° N, East St. Louis gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near East St. Louis

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Washington Park, 2.2 miles away, with 2,481 people.