Homewood, Illinois

Homewood population, 2020 to 2024

Homewood lost 585 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +104. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 301st; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Homewood is 1.3 times that size.

Homewood covers 5.22 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 3,599 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Homewood is denser than the typical town.

What county Homewood is in

All of Homewood's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Homewood holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Homewood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Homewood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60430. 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 Homewood is

The Census internal point of Homewood is at 41.559400, -87.662000. Springfield, the capital, is 161.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Harvey, IL (19,781 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 19.2 miles away.

Daylight in Homewood

At 41.56° N, Homewood 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 Homewood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is East Hazel Crest, 1.3 miles away, with 1,254 people.