Lakewood, Illinois

Lakewood population, 2020 to 2024

Lakewood added 17 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +10.

Lakewood covers 4.59 square miles of land and 0.30 of water, for 934 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Lakewood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lakewood is in

All of Lakewood's residents live in McHenry County, which had 315,959 residents in 2024. Lakewood holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lakewood

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lakewood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60014, 60098. 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 Lakewood is

The Census internal point of Lakewood is at 42.224500, -88.386700. Springfield, the capital, is 181.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Crystal Lake, IL (41,513 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Lakewood

At 42.22° N, Lakewood gets about 15 h 16 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 Lakewood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Crystal Lake, 2.7 miles away, with 41,513 people.