Rantoul, Illinois

Rantoul population, 2020 to 2024

Rantoul lost 57 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +93. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 142nd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Rantoul is 83% of it.

Rantoul covers 8.49 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,445 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Rantoul is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rantoul is in

All of Rantoul's residents live in Champaign County, which had 212,374 residents in 2024. Rantoul holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rantoul

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rantoul by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61866. 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 Rantoul is

The Census internal point of Rantoul is at 40.302600, -88.154900. Springfield, the capital, is 86.9 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Urbana, IL (39,831 people), 13.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Peoria, IL, 82.8 miles away.

Daylight in Rantoul

At 40.30° N, Rantoul gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rantoul

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Thomasboro, 4.4 miles away, with 1,023 people.