Sparta, Illinois

Sparta population, 2020 to 2024

Sparta lost 40 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -13.

Sparta covers 11.16 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 362 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Sparta is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sparta is in

All of Sparta's residents live in Randolph County, which had 29,903 residents in 2024. Sparta holds 13.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sparta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sparta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62286. 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 Sparta is

The Census internal point of Sparta is at 38.139400, -89.730500. Springfield, the capital, is 113.5 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chester, IL (6,759 people), 15.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 44.2 miles away.

Daylight in Sparta

At 38.14° N, Sparta gets about 14 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sparta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Marissa, 7.9 miles away, with 1,743 people.