Edwardsville, Illinois

Edwardsville population, 2020 to 2024

Edwardsville lost 98 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by -49. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 133rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Edwardsville is 1.8 times that size.

Edwardsville covers 20.01 square miles of land and 0.61 of water, for 1,335 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Edwardsville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Edwardsville is in

All of Edwardsville's residents live in Madison County, which had 263,017 residents in 2024. Edwardsville holds 10.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Edwardsville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Edwardsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62025, 62026. 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 Edwardsville is

The Census internal point of Edwardsville is at 38.790800, -89.988600. Springfield, the capital, is 70.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Granite City, IL (26,854 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 17.5 miles away.

Daylight in Edwardsville

At 38.79° N, Edwardsville gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Edwardsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Glen Carbon, 2.3 miles away, with 13,883 people.