Mount Carmel, Illinois

Mount Carmel population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Carmel lost 210 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by -35. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 300th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Mount Carmel is 46% of it.

Mount Carmel covers 4.81 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 1,408 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Mount Carmel is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Carmel is in

All of Mount Carmel's residents live in Wabash County, which had 10,979 residents in 2024. Mount Carmel holds 61.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Carmel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Carmel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62863. 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 Mount Carmel is

The Census internal point of Mount Carmel is at 38.419000, -87.769800. Springfield, the capital, is 137.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Princeton, IN (8,481 people), 11.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Evansville, IN, 32.4 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Carmel

At 38.42° N, Mount Carmel gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Carmel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Albion, 15.9 miles away, with 1,868 people.