Polo, Illinois

Polo population, 2020 to 2024

Polo lost 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -17.

Polo covers 1.45 square miles of land, for 1,543 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Polo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Polo is in

All of Polo's residents live in Ogle County, which had 51,345 residents in 2024. Polo holds 4.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Polo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Polo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61064. 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 Polo is

The Census internal point of Polo is at 41.984800, -89.580400. Springfield, the capital, is 152.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Morris, IL (2,792 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 32.6 miles away.

Daylight in Polo

At 41.98° N, Polo 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 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Polo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Morris, 8.9 miles away, with 2,792 people.