Virden, Illinois

Virden population, 2020 to 2024

Virden lost 74 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by -16.

Virden covers 1.89 square miles of land, for 1,665 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Virden is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Virden spans

Virden crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 3,147 residents as follows; Macoupin County holds 95.5% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Virden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Virden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 62690. 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 Virden is

The Census internal point of Virden is at 39.506100, -89.771100. Springfield, the capital, is 20.1 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Auburn, IL (4,453 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, IL, 20.8 miles away.

Daylight in Virden

At 39.51° N, Virden gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Virden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Girard, 4.2 miles away, with 1,770 people.