Taylorville, Illinois

Taylorville population, 2020 to 2024

Taylorville lost 236 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by -32. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 231st; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Taylorville is 70% of it.

Taylorville covers 10.32 square miles of land and 1.91 of water, for 994 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Taylorville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Taylorville is in

All of Taylorville's residents live in Christian County, which had 33,247 residents in 2024. Taylorville holds 30.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Taylorville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Taylorville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62555, 62568. 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 Taylorville is

The Census internal point of Taylorville is at 39.562700, -89.308300. Springfield, the capital, is 23.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chatham, IL (14,639 people), 21.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 23.9 miles away.

Daylight in Taylorville

At 39.56° N, Taylorville gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Taylorville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Kincaid, 6.0 miles away, with 1,314 people.