Grayslake, Illinois

Grayslake population, 2020 to 2024

Grayslake added 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +144. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 98th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Grayslake is 1.4 times that size.

Grayslake covers 10.93 square miles of land and 0.23 of water, for 1,945 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Grayslake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grayslake is in

All of Grayslake's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Grayslake holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grayslake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grayslake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60030. 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 Grayslake is

The Census internal point of Grayslake is at 42.340800, -88.033600. Springfield, the capital, is 195.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Round Lake Beach, IL (27,091 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 25.7 miles away.

Daylight in Grayslake

At 42.34° N, Grayslake gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grayslake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Hainesville, 2.1 miles away, with 3,532 people.