Mount Sterling, Illinois

Mount Sterling population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Sterling added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +4.

Mount Sterling covers 1.20 square miles of land, for 1,693 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Mount Sterling is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Sterling is in

All of Mount Sterling's residents live in Brown County, which had 6,307 residents in 2024. Mount Sterling holds 32.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Sterling

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Sterling by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62353. 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 Sterling is

The Census internal point of Mount Sterling is at 39.985900, -90.764600. Springfield, the capital, is 60.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rushville, IL (2,904 people), 14.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 60.9 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Sterling

At 39.99° N, Mount Sterling gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Sterling

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Rushville, 14.0 miles away, with 2,904 people.