Normal, Illinois

Normal population, 2020 to 2024

Normal added 280 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +190. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 85th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Normal is 3.6 times that size.

Normal covers 18.68 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 2,854 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Normal is denser than the typical town.

What county Normal is in

All of Normal's residents live in McLean County, which had 172,069 residents in 2024. Normal holds 31.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Normal

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Normal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 61761. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Normal is

The Census internal point of Normal is at 40.520100, -88.992200. Springfield, the capital, is 61.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bloomington, IL (79,232 people), 3.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Peoria, IL, 36.5 miles away.

Daylight in Normal

At 40.52° N, Normal gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Normal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Bloomington, 3.3 miles away, with 79,232 people.