Fox Lake, Illinois

Fox Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Fox Lake lost 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +51. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 130th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Fox Lake is 74% of it.

Fox Lake covers 7.83 square miles of land and 1.60 of water, for 1,395 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Fox Lake is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Fox Lake spans

Fox Lake crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 10,925 residents as follows; Lake County holds 94.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fox Lake

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fox Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60002, 60020, 60041, 60081. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Fox Lake is

The Census internal point of Fox Lake is at 42.428200, -88.183900. Springfield, the capital, is 198.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Round Lake Beach, IL (27,091 people), 6.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 27.8 miles away.

Daylight in Fox Lake

At 42.43° N, Fox Lake gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fox Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Spring Grove, 3.3 miles away, with 5,554 people.