Red Bud, Illinois

Red Bud population, 2020 to 2024

Red Bud lost 29 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

Red Bud covers 2.62 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,436 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Red Bud is less dense than the typical town.

What county Red Bud is in

All of Red Bud's residents live in Randolph County, which had 29,903 residents in 2024. Red Bud holds 12.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Red Bud

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Red Bud by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62278. 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 Red Bud is

The Census internal point of Red Bud is at 38.207500, -90.002400. Springfield, the capital, is 110.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waterloo, IL (11,165 people), 12.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 32.4 miles away.

Daylight in Red Bud

At 38.21° N, Red Bud gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Red Bud

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is New Athens, 10.4 miles away, with 1,870 people.