Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park population, 2020 to 2024

Highland Park added 637 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +291. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Highland Park is 2.1 times that size.

Highland Park covers 12.23 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,518 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Highland Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Highland Park is in

All of Highland Park's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Highland Park 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 Highland Park

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Highland Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60035. 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 Park is

The Census internal point of Highland Park is at 42.182400, -87.810800. Springfield, the capital, is 191.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Northbrook, IL (34,546 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 24.7 miles away.

Daylight in Highland Park

At 42.18° N, Highland Park gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Highland Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Highwood, 1.6 miles away, with 5,358 people.