Homer, Illinois

Homer population, 2020 to 2024

Homer added 3 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +19.

Homer covers 0.98 square miles of land, for 1,098 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Homer is less dense than the typical town.

What county Homer is in

All of Homer's residents live in Champaign County, which had 212,374 residents in 2024. Homer holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Homer

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Homer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61849. 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 Homer is

The Census internal point of Homer is at 40.033000, -87.957800. Springfield, the capital, is 91.4 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sidney, IL (1,194 people), 6.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 91.0 miles away.

Daylight in Homer

At 40.03° N, Homer gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Homer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Sidney, 6.1 miles away, with 1,194 people.