Island Lake, Illinois

Island Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Island Lake added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +33. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 90th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Island Lake is 55% of it.

Island Lake covers 3.37 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 2,393 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Island Lake is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Island Lake spans

Island Lake crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 8,066 residents as follows; McHenry County holds 58.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Island Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Island Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60042. 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 Island Lake is

The Census internal point of Island Lake is at 42.278800, -88.200500. Springfield, the capital, is 188.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wauconda, IL (14,055 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 17.8 miles away.

Daylight in Island Lake

At 42.28° N, Island Lake gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Island Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Port Barrington, 2.4 miles away, with 1,579 people.