Loves Park, Illinois

Loves Park population, 2020 to 2024

Loves Park added 236 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +205. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 67th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Loves Park is 1.6 times that size.

Loves Park covers 16.33 square miles of land and 0.53 of water, for 1,447 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Loves Park is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Loves Park spans

Loves Park crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 23,636 residents as follows; Winnebago County holds 93.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Loves Park

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Loves Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61011, 61111. 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 Loves Park is

The Census internal point of Loves Park is at 42.337800, -88.998600. Springfield, the capital, is 179.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rockford, IL (147,486 people), 6.3 miles away.

Daylight in Loves Park

At 42.34° N, Loves Park gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Loves Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Machesney Park, 2.5 miles away, with 22,839 people.