Litchfield, Illinois

Litchfield population, 2020 to 2024

Litchfield lost 171 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by -38. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 252nd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Litchfield is 45% of it.

Litchfield covers 8.96 square miles of land and 2.02 of water, for 735 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Litchfield is less dense than the typical town.

What county Litchfield is in

All of Litchfield's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 27,615 residents in 2024. Litchfield holds 23.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Litchfield

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Litchfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62015, 62056. 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 Litchfield is

The Census internal point of Litchfield is at 39.176000, -89.665500. Springfield, the capital, is 41.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenville, IL (7,126 people), 24.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 42.5 miles away.

Daylight in Litchfield

At 39.18° N, Litchfield gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Litchfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Olive, 7.9 miles away, with 1,941 people.