Oak Lawn, Illinois

Oak Lawn population, 2020 to 2024

Oak Lawn lost 1,618 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +353. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 273rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Oak Lawn is 3.8 times that size.

Oak Lawn covers 8.57 square miles of land, for 6,596 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Oak Lawn is denser than the typical town.

What county Oak Lawn is in

All of Oak Lawn's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Oak Lawn holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oak Lawn

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oak Lawn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60453. 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 Oak Lawn is

The Census internal point of Oak Lawn is at 41.713900, -87.752800. Springfield, the capital, is 166.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cicero, IL (82,090 people), 9.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 9.2 miles away.

Daylight in Oak Lawn

At 41.71° N, Oak Lawn gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oak Lawn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Chicago Ridge, 1.6 miles away, with 14,036 people.