Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Rolling Meadows population, 2020 to 2024

Rolling Meadows lost 450 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +142. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 215th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Rolling Meadows is 1.6 times that size.

Rolling Meadows covers 5.62 square miles of land, for 4,223 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Rolling Meadows is denser than the typical town.

What county Rolling Meadows is in

All of Rolling Meadows's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Rolling Meadows holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rolling Meadows

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rolling Meadows by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60008. 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 Rolling Meadows is

The Census internal point of Rolling Meadows is at 42.074900, -88.025400. Springfield, the capital, is 179.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Arlington Heights, IL (75,596 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 15.6 miles away.

Daylight in Rolling Meadows

At 42.07° N, Rolling Meadows gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rolling Meadows

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Arlington Heights, 2.7 miles away, with 75,596 people.