Lena, Illinois

Lena population, 2020 to 2024

Lena lost 93 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -14.

Lena covers 2.65 square miles of land, for 1,006 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Lena is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lena is in

All of Lena's residents live in Stephenson County, which had 43,088 residents in 2024. Lena holds 6.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lena

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lena by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61048. 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 Lena is

The Census internal point of Lena is at 42.378600, -89.821700. Springfield, the capital, is 179.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Freeport, IL (23,140 people), 11.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 39.6 miles away.

Daylight in Lena

At 42.38° N, Lena gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lena

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Stockton, 9.4 miles away, with 1,668 people.