Malta, Illinois

Malta population, 2020 to 2024

Malta lost 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Malta covers 0.62 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,834 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Malta is less dense than the typical town.

What county Malta is in

All of Malta's residents live in DeKalb County, which had 101,335 residents in 2024. Malta holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Malta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Malta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60150. 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 Malta is

The Census internal point of Malta is at 41.929500, -88.871200. Springfield, the capital, is 153.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is DeKalb, IL (40,491 people), 6.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 24.9 miles away.

Daylight in Malta

At 41.93° N, Malta gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Malta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is DeKalb, 6.4 miles away, with 40,491 people.