Gurnee, Illinois

Gurnee population, 2020 to 2024

Gurnee lost 111 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +115. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 131st; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Gurnee is 2.1 times that size.

Gurnee covers 13.51 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 2,261 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Gurnee is close to the typical town.

What county Gurnee is in

All of Gurnee's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Gurnee holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gurnee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gurnee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60031. 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 Gurnee is

The Census internal point of Gurnee is at 42.370100, -87.936800. Springfield, the capital, is 199.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waukegan, IL (88,570 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 30.3 miles away.

Daylight in Gurnee

At 42.37° N, Gurnee gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gurnee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Park City, 2.5 miles away, with 7,940 people.