Harwood Heights, Illinois

Harwood Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Harwood Heights lost 274 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +52. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 305th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Harwood Heights is 59% of it.

Harwood Heights covers 0.83 square miles of land, for 10,548 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Harwood Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Harwood Heights is in

All of Harwood Heights's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Harwood Heights 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 Harwood Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Harwood Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60706. 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 Harwood Heights is

The Census internal point of Harwood Heights is at 41.966300, -87.805600. Springfield, the capital, is 179.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Norridge, IL (14,817 people), 0.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 10.9 miles away.

Daylight in Harwood Heights

At 41.97° N, Harwood Heights gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Harwood Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Norridge, 0.9 miles away, with 14,817 people.