Prairie Grove, Illinois

Prairie Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Prairie Grove lost 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +5.

Prairie Grove covers 6.05 square miles of land, for 322 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Prairie Grove is less dense than the typical town.

What county Prairie Grove is in

All of Prairie Grove's residents live in McHenry County, which had 315,959 residents in 2024. Prairie Grove holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Prairie Grove

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Prairie Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60012, 60014, 60050. 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 Prairie Grove is

The Census internal point of Prairie Grove is at 42.273900, -88.269900. Springfield, the capital, is 186.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakwood Hills, IL (2,059 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 16.5 miles away.

Daylight in Prairie Grove

At 42.27° N, Prairie Grove gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Prairie Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Oakwood Hills, 2.3 miles away, with 2,059 people.