Lake Zurich, Illinois

Lake Zurich population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Zurich added 173 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +100. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 73rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Lake Zurich is 1.4 times that size.

Lake Zurich covers 6.92 square miles of land and 0.41 of water, for 2,884 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Lake Zurich is denser than the typical town.

What county Lake Zurich is in

All of Lake Zurich's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Lake Zurich holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Zurich

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Zurich by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60047. 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 Zurich is

The Census internal point of Lake Zurich is at 42.195000, -88.087700. Springfield, the capital, is 185.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Palatine, IL (65,951 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 16.3 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Zurich

At 42.20° N, Lake Zurich 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 Zurich

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Deer Park, 2.0 miles away, with 3,669 people.