Freeport, Illinois

Freeport population, 2020 to 2024

Freeport lost 820 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -145. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 324th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Freeport is 1.6 times that size.

Freeport covers 11.87 square miles of land, for 1,949 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Freeport is less dense than the typical town.

What county Freeport is in

All of Freeport's residents live in Stephenson County, which had 43,088 residents in 2024. Freeport holds 53.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Freeport

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Freeport by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61032. 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 Freeport is

The Census internal point of Freeport is at 42.289000, -89.634300. Springfield, the capital, is 173.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rockford, IL (147,486 people), 29.3 miles away.

Daylight in Freeport

At 42.29° N, Freeport gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Freeport

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Lena, 11.4 miles away, with 2,666 people.