Thornton, Illinois

Thornton population, 2020 to 2024

Thornton lost 76 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +13.

Thornton covers 2.38 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 966 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Thornton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Thornton is in

All of Thornton's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Thornton holds 0.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Thornton

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Thornton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60430, 60476. 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 Thornton is

The Census internal point of Thornton is at 41.574100, -87.619300. Springfield, the capital, is 163.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Holland, IL (20,775 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 18.5 miles away.

Daylight in Thornton

At 41.57° N, Thornton gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Thornton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is East Hazel Crest, 1.6 miles away, with 1,254 people.