Kankakee, Illinois

Kankakee population, 2020 to 2024

Kankakee lost 472 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -36. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 219th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Kankakee is 1.6 times that size.

Kankakee covers 15.15 square miles of land and 0.48 of water, for 1,553 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Kankakee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kankakee is in

All of Kankakee's residents live in Kankakee County, which had 106,410 residents in 2024. Kankakee holds 22.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kankakee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kankakee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60901. 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 Kankakee is

The Census internal point of Kankakee is at 41.101700, -87.863700. Springfield, the capital, is 131.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Lenox, IL (28,480 people), 28.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 32.2 miles away.

Daylight in Kankakee

At 41.10° N, Kankakee gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kankakee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Bradley, 4.4 miles away, with 15,298 people.