Effingham, Illinois

Effingham population, 2020 to 2024

Effingham added 106 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +105. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 74th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Effingham is 84% of it.

Effingham covers 10.79 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,152 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Effingham is less dense than the typical town.

What county Effingham is in

All of Effingham's residents live in Effingham County, which had 34,602 residents in 2024. Effingham holds 35.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Effingham

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Effingham by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62401. 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 Effingham is

The Census internal point of Effingham is at 39.120700, -88.550900. Springfield, the capital, is 74.3 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mattoon, IL (16,602 people), 26.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 74.5 miles away.

Daylight in Effingham

At 39.12° N, Effingham gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Effingham

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Teutopolis, 3.9 miles away, with 1,694 people.