Steger, Illinois

Steger population, 2020 to 2024

Steger lost 202 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +32. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 226th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Steger is 64% of it.

Steger covers 3.41 square miles of land, for 2,750 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Steger is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Steger spans

Steger crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 9,376 residents as follows; Will County holds 57.5% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Steger

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Steger by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60475. 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 Steger is

The Census internal point of Steger is at 41.472300, -87.617800. Springfield, the capital, is 158.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sauk Village, IL (9,627 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 25.4 miles away.

Daylight in Steger

At 41.47° N, Steger gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Steger

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is South Chicago Heights, 1.3 miles away, with 3,887 people.