Melrose Park, Illinois

Melrose Park population, 2020 to 2024

Melrose Park lost 706 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +145. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 283rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Melrose Park is 1.6 times that size.

Melrose Park covers 4.35 square miles of land, for 5,517 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Melrose Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Melrose Park is in

All of Melrose Park's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Melrose Park holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Melrose Park

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Melrose Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60160. 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 Melrose Park is

The Census internal point of Melrose Park is at 41.903000, -87.863600. Springfield, the capital, is 173.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Park, IL (52,947 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 10.3 miles away.

Daylight in Melrose Park

At 41.90° N, Melrose Park gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Melrose Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Stone Park, 0.9 miles away, with 4,473 people.