Lake in the Hills, Illinois

Lake in the Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Lake in the Hills lost 221 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -3. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 160th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Lake in the Hills is 1.9 times that size.

Lake in the Hills covers 10.21 square miles of land and 0.23 of water, for 2,812 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Lake in the Hills is denser than the typical town.

What county Lake in the Hills is in

All of Lake in the Hills's residents live in McHenry County, which had 315,959 residents in 2024. Lake in the Hills holds 9.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake in the Hills

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake in the Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60156. 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 Lake in the Hills is

The Census internal point of Lake in the Hills is at 42.179400, -88.315500. Springfield, the capital, is 179.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Algonquin, IL (30,539 people), 1.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 9.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lake in the Hills

At 42.18° N, Lake in the Hills gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake in the Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Algonquin, 1.4 miles away, with 30,539 people.