Elmhurst, Illinois

Elmhurst population, 2020 to 2024

Elmhurst added 381 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +442. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 77th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Elmhurst is 3.1 times that size.

Elmhurst covers 10.22 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 4,512 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Elmhurst is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Elmhurst spans

Elmhurst crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 46,108 residents as follows; DuPage County holds 100.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elmhurst

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elmhurst by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60126. 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 Elmhurst is

The Census internal point of Elmhurst is at 41.897000, -87.943700. Springfield, the capital, is 171.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Park, IL (52,947 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 13.9 miles away.

Daylight in Elmhurst

At 41.90° N, Elmhurst gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elmhurst

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Berkeley, 1.7 miles away, with 5,155 people.