Summit, Illinois

Summit population, 2020 to 2024

Summit lost 355 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +60. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 317th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Summit is 73% of it.

Summit covers 2.12 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 5,076 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Summit is denser than the typical town.

What county Summit is in

All of Summit's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Summit holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Summit

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Summit by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60501. 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 Summit is

The Census internal point of Summit is at 41.788500, -87.813900. Springfield, the capital, is 168.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Justice, IL (12,267 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 7.5 miles away.

Daylight in Summit

At 41.79° N, Summit gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Summit

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Lyons, 1.7 miles away, with 10,440 people.