Illinois · Census place 1757394

Palos Hills, Illinois

Palos Hills is a city in Cook County, Illinois with an estimated 18,026 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 143rd largest of 651 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
18,026
#143 of 651 in Illinois
Change since 2020
-2.4%
-437 people
Land area
4.3 sq mi
+ 0.04 sq mi water
Density
4,241 / sq mi
State median 2,177
Orange pin: Palos Hills. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Springfield.

Palos Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Palos Hills lost 437 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +123. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 243rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Palos Hills is 1.2 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 18,528. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Palos Hills covers 4.25 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 4,241 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Palos Hills is denser than the typical town.

What county Palos Hills is in

All of Palos Hills's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Palos Hills holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palos Hills

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palos Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60465. 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 Hills is

The Census internal point of Palos Hills is at 41.700700, -87.825300. Springfield, the capital, is 163.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Lawn, IL (56,531 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 11.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.700700, -87.825300
DMS
41°42'2.52"N 87°49'31.08"W
UTM
16N 431331.0E 4616875.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
86HJP52F+7V

Daylight in Palos Hills

At 41.70° N, Palos Hills 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 Palos Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Hickory Hills, 1.7 miles away, with 14,118 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Palos Hills, IL?

18,026 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 437 (2.4%) from 18,463 in July 2020.

What county is Palos Hills in?

Cook County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Palos Hills?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 60465.

How far is Palos Hills from Springfield?

163.4 miles (263.0 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Palos Hills.

What is the nearest larger city to Palos Hills?

Oak Lawn, IL, with 56,531 residents, 3.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.