Long Creek, Illinois

Long Creek population, 2020 to 2024

Long Creek lost 29 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Long Creek covers 2.82 square miles of land, for 437 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Long Creek is less dense than the typical town.

What county Long Creek is in

All of Long Creek's residents live in Macon County, which had 100,737 residents in 2024. Long Creek holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Long Creek

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Long Creek by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 62521. 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 Long Creek is

The Census internal point of Long Creek is at 39.805200, -88.847300. Springfield, the capital, is 42.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Zion, IL (5,897 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 42.3 miles away.

Daylight in Long Creek

At 39.81° N, Long Creek gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Long Creek

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Zion, 2.5 miles away, with 5,897 people.