Granite City, Illinois

Granite City population, 2020 to 2024

Granite City lost 663 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -116. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 246th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Granite City is 1.8 times that size.

Granite City covers 19.02 square miles of land and 1.56 of water, for 1,412 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Granite City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Granite City is in

All of Granite City's residents live in Madison County, which had 263,017 residents in 2024. Granite City holds 10.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Granite City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Granite City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62040, 62048. 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 Granite City is

The Census internal point of Granite City is at 38.729300, -90.125500. Springfield, the capital, is 77.0 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Louis, MO (279,695 people), 9.1 miles away.

Daylight in Granite City

At 38.73° N, Granite City gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Granite City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Madison, 3.2 miles away, with 3,060 people.