Palos Heights, Illinois

Palos Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Palos Heights lost 332 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +76. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 263rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Palos Heights is 82% of it.

Palos Heights covers 3.78 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 3,198 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Palos Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Palos Heights is in

All of Palos Heights's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Palos Heights holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palos Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palos Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60463. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Palos Heights is

The Census internal point of Palos Heights is at 41.663400, -87.796000. Springfield, the capital, is 162.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chicago Ridge, IL (14,036 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 13.3 miles away.

Daylight in Palos Heights

At 41.66° N, Palos Heights gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palos Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Worth, 1.7 miles away, with 10,660 people.