Paris, Illinois

Paris population, 2020 to 2024

Paris lost 189 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by -14. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 235th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Paris is 55% of it.

Paris covers 5.68 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 1,422 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Paris is less dense than the typical town.

What county Paris is in

All of Paris's residents live in Edgar County, which had 16,398 residents in 2024. Paris holds 49.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paris

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Paris by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61944. 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 Paris is

The Census internal point of Paris is at 39.615100, -87.689100. Springfield, the capital, is 104.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Terre Haute, IN (58,531 people), 19.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Indianapolis, IN, 82.8 miles away.

Daylight in Paris

At 39.62° N, Paris gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paris

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Chrisman, 13.1 miles away, with 1,273 people.