New Lenox, Illinois

New Lenox population, 2020 to 2024

New Lenox added 1,237 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +350. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so New Lenox is 1.9 times that size.

New Lenox covers 16.07 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,772 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so New Lenox is less dense than the typical town.

What county New Lenox is in

All of New Lenox's residents live in Will County, which had 708,583 residents in 2024. New Lenox holds 4.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in New Lenox

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps New Lenox by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60451. 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 New Lenox is

The Census internal point of New Lenox is at 41.510000, -87.970000. Springfield, the capital, is 148.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Orland Park, IL (58,020 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 9.2 miles away.

Daylight in New Lenox

At 41.51° N, New Lenox gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near New Lenox

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Mokena, 5.0 miles away, with 19,915 people.