Mundelein, Illinois

Mundelein population, 2020 to 2024

Mundelein added 1,102 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +603. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Mundelein is 2.2 times that size.

Mundelein covers 10.94 square miles of land and 0.41 of water, for 2,984 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Mundelein is denser than the typical town.

What county Mundelein is in

All of Mundelein's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Mundelein holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mundelein

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mundelein by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60060. 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 Mundelein is

The Census internal point of Mundelein is at 42.273400, -88.016200. Springfield, the capital, is 192.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Buffalo Grove, IL (43,072 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 22.7 miles away.

Daylight in Mundelein

At 42.27° N, Mundelein gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mundelein

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Libertyville, 2.7 miles away, with 20,643 people.