Highland, Illinois

Highland population, 2020 to 2024

Highland lost 51 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +6. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 145th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Highland is 68% of it.

Highland covers 7.16 square miles of land and 1.03 of water, for 1,401 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Highland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Highland is in

All of Highland's residents live in Madison County, which had 263,017 residents in 2024. Highland holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Highland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Highland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62249. 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 Highland is

The Census internal point of Highland is at 38.769800, -89.686100. Springfield, the capital, is 69.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Troy, IL (11,810 people), 11.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 31.5 miles away.

Daylight in Highland

At 38.77° N, Highland 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 Highland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Jacob, 5.5 miles away, with 1,368 people.