Gilberts, Illinois

Gilberts population, 2020 to 2024

Gilberts added 704 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.4%. In the latest year it moved by +268. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Gilberts is 61% of it.

Gilberts covers 5.49 square miles of land, for 1,653 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Gilberts is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gilberts is in

All of Gilberts's residents live in Kane County, which had 520,997 residents in 2024. Gilberts holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gilberts

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Gilberts by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60118, 60136. 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 Gilberts is

The Census internal point of Gilberts is at 42.110000, -88.371900. Springfield, the capital, is 174.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pingree Grove, IL (11,512 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 5.5 miles away.

Daylight in Gilberts

At 42.11° N, Gilberts gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gilberts

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is West Dundee, 2.0 miles away, with 7,906 people.