Homer Glen, Illinois

Homer Glen population, 2020 to 2024

Homer Glen added 352 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +227. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 53rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Homer Glen is 1.7 times that size.

Homer Glen covers 22.21 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,119 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Homer Glen is less dense than the typical town.

What county Homer Glen is in

All of Homer Glen's residents live in Will County, which had 708,583 residents in 2024. Homer Glen holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Homer Glen

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Homer Glen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60491. 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 Glen is

The Census internal point of Homer Glen is at 41.605200, -87.952400. Springfield, the capital, is 154.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lockport, IL (26,915 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 11.8 miles away.

Daylight in Homer Glen

At 41.61° N, Homer Glen gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Homer Glen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Lockport, 4.1 miles away, with 26,915 people.