Kewanee, Illinois

Kewanee population, 2020 to 2024

Kewanee lost 322 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.6%. In the latest year it moved by -62. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 257th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Kewanee is 82% of it.

Kewanee covers 6.60 square miles of land, for 1,840 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Kewanee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kewanee is in

All of Kewanee's residents live in Henry County, which had 48,177 residents in 2024. Kewanee holds 25.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kewanee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kewanee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61443. 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 Kewanee is

The Census internal point of Kewanee is at 41.239100, -89.925700. Springfield, the capital, is 101.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Galesburg, IL (29,289 people), 30.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Peoria, IL, 37.3 miles away.

Daylight in Kewanee

At 41.24° N, Kewanee gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kewanee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Galva, 7.6 miles away, with 2,396 people.