Goreville, Illinois

Goreville population, 2020 to 2024

Goreville lost 9 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -6.

Goreville covers 2.69 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 392 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Goreville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Goreville is in

All of Goreville's residents live in Johnson County, which had 13,320 residents in 2024. Goreville holds 7.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Goreville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Goreville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 62939, 62972. 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 Goreville is

The Census internal point of Goreville is at 37.555100, -88.973500. Springfield, the capital, is 158.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Vienna, IL (1,350 people), 10.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Evansville, IN, 84.1 miles away.

Daylight in Goreville

At 37.56° N, Goreville gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Goreville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Vienna, 10.9 miles away, with 1,350 people.