Farmer City, Illinois

Farmer City population, 2020 to 2024

Farmer City lost 11 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Farmer City covers 2.40 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 757 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Farmer City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Farmer City is in

All of Farmer City's residents live in De Witt County, which had 15,319 residents in 2024. Farmer City holds 11.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Farmer City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Farmer City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61842. 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 Farmer City is

The Census internal point of Farmer City is at 40.248100, -88.641800. Springfield, the capital, is 62.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Le Roy, IL (3,495 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 61.8 miles away.

Daylight in Farmer City

At 40.25° N, Farmer City gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Farmer City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Le Roy, 8.9 miles away, with 3,495 people.