Gardner, Illinois

Gardner population, 2020 to 2024

Gardner added 7 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +2.

Gardner covers 2.91 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 469 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Gardner is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gardner is in

All of Gardner's residents live in Grundy County, which had 53,835 residents in 2024. Gardner holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gardner

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gardner by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60424. 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 Gardner is

The Census internal point of Gardner is at 41.194500, -88.311500. Springfield, the capital, is 120.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Coal City, IL (5,810 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 23.9 miles away.

Daylight in Gardner

At 41.19° N, Gardner gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gardner

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Coal City, 6.1 miles away, with 5,810 people.