Rochelle, Illinois

Rochelle population, 2020 to 2024

Rochelle added 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +140. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 88th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Rochelle is 64% of it.

Rochelle covers 13.76 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 691 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Rochelle is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rochelle is in

All of Rochelle's residents live in Ogle County, which had 51,345 residents in 2024. Rochelle holds 18.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rochelle

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rochelle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61068. 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 Rochelle is

The Census internal point of Rochelle is at 41.919100, -89.063700. Springfield, the capital, is 150.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is DeKalb, IL (40,491 people), 16.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 23.5 miles away.

Daylight in Rochelle

At 41.92° N, Rochelle gets about 15 h 14 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 Rochelle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Hillcrest, 3.3 miles away, with 1,206 people.