Peoria, Illinois

Peoria population, 2020 to 2024

Peoria lost 1,246 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +501. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 173rd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Peoria is 7.6 times that size.

Peoria covers 48.13 square miles of land and 2.58 of water, for 2,321 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Peoria is close to the typical town.

What county Peoria is in

All of Peoria's residents live in Peoria County, which had 179,630 residents in 2024. Peoria holds 62.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Peoria

8 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Peoria by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61602, 61603, 61604, 61605, 61606, 61614, 61615, 61625. 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 Peoria is

The Census internal point of Peoria is at 40.751600, -89.617200. Springfield, the capital, is 67.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Springfield, IL (112,949 people), 66.4 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 220 m (722 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Peoria

At 40.75° N, Peoria gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Peoria daylight page.

Places near Peoria

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Peoria Heights, 2.5 miles away, with 5,802 people.