Manhattan, Illinois

Manhattan population, 2020 to 2024

Manhattan added 1,242 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.0%. In the latest year it moved by +191. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Manhattan is 73% of it.

Manhattan covers 6.75 square miles of land, for 1,596 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Manhattan is less dense than the typical town.

What county Manhattan is in

All of Manhattan's residents live in Will County, which had 708,583 residents in 2024. Manhattan holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Manhattan

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Manhattan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60442. 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 Manhattan is

The Census internal point of Manhattan is at 41.420200, -87.980700. Springfield, the capital, is 143.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Lenox, IL (28,480 people), 6.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 10.9 miles away.

Daylight in Manhattan

At 41.42° N, Manhattan gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Manhattan

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is New Lenox, 6.2 miles away, with 28,480 people.