Park Ridge, Illinois

Park Ridge population, 2020 to 2024

Park Ridge lost 1,057 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +242. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 264th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Park Ridge is 2.6 times that size.

Park Ridge covers 7.09 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 5,422 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Park Ridge is denser than the typical town.

What county Park Ridge is in

All of Park Ridge's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Park Ridge holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Park Ridge

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Park Ridge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60068. 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 Park Ridge is

The Census internal point of Park Ridge is at 42.011800, -87.843400. Springfield, the capital, is 180.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Des Plaines, IL (58,832 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 14.5 miles away.

Daylight in Park Ridge

At 42.01° N, Park Ridge gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Park Ridge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Niles, 2.0 miles away, with 29,918 people.