Vernon Hills, Illinois

Vernon Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Vernon Hills added 177 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +115. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 82nd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Vernon Hills is 1.8 times that size.

Vernon Hills covers 7.74 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 3,489 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Vernon Hills is denser than the typical town.

What county Vernon Hills is in

All of Vernon Hills's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Vernon Hills holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Vernon Hills

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Vernon Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60061. 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 Vernon Hills is

The Census internal point of Vernon Hills is at 42.234400, -87.961100. Springfield, the capital, is 191.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mundelein, IL (32,641 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 23.1 miles away.

Daylight in Vernon Hills

At 42.23° N, Vernon Hills gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Vernon Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Lincolnshire, 3.4 miles away, with 8,008 people.