Park Forest, Illinois

Park Forest population, 2020 to 2024

Park Forest lost 601 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +104. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 272nd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Park Forest is 1.4 times that size.

Park Forest covers 4.96 square miles of land, for 4,237 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Park Forest is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Park Forest spans

Park Forest crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 21,016 residents as follows; Cook County holds 85.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Park Forest

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Park Forest by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60466. 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 Park Forest is

The Census internal point of Park Forest is at 41.481700, -87.686800. Springfield, the capital, is 156.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chicago Heights, IL (26,533 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 24.0 miles away.

Daylight in Park Forest

At 41.48° N, Park Forest gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Park Forest

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is South Chicago Heights, 2.6 miles away, with 3,887 people.