Illinois · Census place 1735866

Hometown, Illinois

Hometown is a city in Cook County, Illinois with an estimated 4,193 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 363rd largest of 651 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024: 4,193; #363 of 651 in Illinois
Change since 2020: -3.1%; -136 people
Land area: 0.5 sq mi
Density: 8,735 / sq mi; State median 2,177

Orange pin: Hometown. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Springfield.

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Hometown population, 2020 to 2024

Hometown lost 136 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +23.

July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,347. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Hometown covers 0.48 square miles of land, for 8,735 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Hometown is denser than the typical town.

What county Hometown is in

All of Hometown's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Hometown holds 0.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hometown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hometown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60456. 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 Hometown is

The Census internal point of Hometown is at 41.731200, -87.731100. Springfield, the capital, is 168.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Lawn, IL (56,531 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 7.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal: 41.731200, -87.731100
DMS: 41°43'52.32"N 87°43'51.96"W
UTM: 16N 439197.7E 4620190.6N
Geohash: dp3t7sujv
Plus code: 86HJP7J9+FH

Daylight in Hometown

At 41.73° N, Hometown gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hometown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Oak Lawn, 1.6 miles away, with 56,531 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Hometown, IL?

4,193 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 136 (3.1%) from 4,329 in July 2020.

What county is Hometown in?

Cook County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Hometown?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 60456.

How far is Hometown from Springfield?

168.0 miles (270.4 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Hometown.

What is the nearest larger city to Hometown?

Oak Lawn, IL, with 56,531 residents, 1.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.