Glenwood, Illinois

Glenwood population, 2020 to 2024

Glenwood lost 252 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +51. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 288th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Glenwood is 57% of it.

Glenwood covers 3.28 square miles of land, for 2,565 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Glenwood is denser than the typical town.

What county Glenwood is in

All of Glenwood's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Glenwood holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Glenwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Glenwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60425. 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 Glenwood is

The Census internal point of Glenwood is at 41.541000, -87.611700. Springfield, the capital, is 161.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chicago Heights, IL (26,533 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 20.8 miles away.

Daylight in Glenwood

At 41.54° N, Glenwood gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Glenwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Thornton, 2.3 miles away, with 2,300 people.