Mount Zion, Illinois

Mount Zion population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Zion lost 118 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +8. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 218th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Mount Zion is 40% of it.

Mount Zion covers 4.26 square miles of land, for 1,384 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Mount Zion is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Zion is in

All of Mount Zion's residents live in Macon County, which had 100,737 residents in 2024. Mount Zion holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Zion

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mount Zion by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 62521, 62549. 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 Mount Zion is

The Census internal point of Mount Zion is at 39.784000, -88.885000. Springfield, the capital, is 40.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Decatur, IL (68,763 people), 5.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 40.3 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Zion

At 39.78° N, Mount Zion gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Zion

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Long Creek, 2.5 miles away, with 1,232 people.