Metropolis, Illinois

Metropolis population, 2020 to 2024

Metropolis lost 177 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by -45. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 295th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Metropolis is 39% of it.

Metropolis covers 6.02 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 959 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Metropolis is less dense than the typical town.

What county Metropolis is in

All of Metropolis's residents live in Massac County, which had 13,627 residents in 2024. Metropolis holds 42.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Metropolis

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Metropolis by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62960. 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 Metropolis is

The Census internal point of Metropolis is at 37.149600, -88.687400. Springfield, the capital, is 189.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Paducah, KY (26,712 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Clarksville, TN, 84.4 miles away.

Daylight in Metropolis

At 37.15° N, Metropolis gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Metropolis

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Vienna, 21.3 miles away, with 1,350 people.