Palatine, Illinois

Palatine population, 2020 to 2024

Palatine lost 1,719 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +566. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 253rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Palatine is 4.5 times that size.

Palatine covers 14.12 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 4,671 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Palatine is denser than the typical town.

What county Palatine is in

All of Palatine's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Palatine holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palatine

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Palatine by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60067, 60074. 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 Palatine is

The Census internal point of Palatine is at 42.116500, -88.044400. Springfield, the capital, is 181.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Arlington Heights, IL (75,596 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 15.4 miles away.

Daylight in Palatine

At 42.12° N, Palatine gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palatine

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Inverness, 2.9 miles away, with 7,428 people.