Fairview Heights, Illinois

Fairview Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Fairview Heights lost 551 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.3%. In the latest year it moved by -68. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 321st; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Fairview Heights is 1.1 times that size.

Fairview Heights covers 11.46 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,406 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Fairview Heights is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fairview Heights is in

All of Fairview Heights's residents live in St. Clair County, which had 251,149 residents in 2024. Fairview Heights holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fairview Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fairview Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62208. 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 Fairview Heights is

The Census internal point of Fairview Heights is at 38.595300, -90.004700. Springfield, the capital, is 84.1 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is O'Fallon, IL (32,169 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Fairview Heights

At 38.60° N, Fairview Heights 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 Fairview Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Caseyville, 2.8 miles away, with 4,395 people.