Rockton, Illinois

Rockton population, 2020 to 2024

Rockton added 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +52. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 111th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Rockton is 53% of it.

Rockton covers 6.86 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 1,146 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Rockton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rockton is in

All of Rockton's residents live in Winnebago County, which had 283,790 residents in 2024. Rockton holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 61072. 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 Rockton is

The Census internal point of Rockton is at 42.447100, -89.063100. Springfield, the capital, is 186.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Roscoe, IL (10,981 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rockford, IL, 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Rockton

At 42.45° N, Rockton gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Roscoe, 3.1 miles away, with 10,981 people.