Niles, Illinois

Niles population, 2020 to 2024

Niles lost 871 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +179. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 277th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Niles is 2.0 times that size.

Niles covers 5.85 square miles of land, for 5,114 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Niles is denser than the typical town.

What county Niles is in

All of Niles's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Niles holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Niles

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Niles by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60714. 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 Niles is

The Census internal point of Niles is at 42.027900, -87.810000. Springfield, the capital, is 182.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Park Ridge, IL (38,445 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 14.7 miles away.

Daylight in Niles

At 42.03° N, Niles gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Niles

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Morton Grove, 1.5 miles away, with 24,467 people.