Mount Olive, Illinois

Mount Olive population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Olive lost 67 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.3%. In the latest year it moved by -15.

Mount Olive covers 1.15 square miles of land, for 1,688 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Mount Olive is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Olive is in

All of Mount Olive's residents live in Macoupin County, which had 43,895 residents in 2024. Mount Olive holds 4.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Olive

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Olive by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62069. 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 Olive is

The Census internal point of Mount Olive is at 39.072700, -89.727900. Springfield, the capital, is 49.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Staunton, IL (4,935 people), 5.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 41.1 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Olive

At 39.07° N, Mount Olive gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Olive

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Benld, 4.2 miles away, with 1,407 people.