Highwood, Illinois

Highwood population, 2020 to 2024

Highwood added 271 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.3%. In the latest year it moved by +12. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Highwood is 36% of it.

Highwood covers 0.72 square miles of land, for 7,442 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Highwood is denser than the typical town.

What county Highwood is in

All of Highwood's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Highwood holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Highwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Highwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60040. 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 Highwood is

The Census internal point of Highwood is at 42.206000, -87.812900. Springfield, the capital, is 193.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Highland Park, IL (30,794 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 26.3 miles away.

Daylight in Highwood

At 42.21° N, Highwood 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 Highwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Highland Park, 1.6 miles away, with 30,794 people.