Watseka, Illinois

Watseka population, 2020 to 2024

Watseka lost 174 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Watseka covers 2.94 square miles of land, for 1,529 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Watseka is less dense than the typical town.

What county Watseka is in

All of Watseka's residents live in Iroquois County, which had 26,067 residents in 2024. Watseka holds 17.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Watseka

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Watseka by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60970. 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 Watseka is

The Census internal point of Watseka is at 40.775100, -87.730400. Springfield, the capital, is 122.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hoopeston, IL (4,691 people), 22.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Joliet, IL, 55.7 miles away.

Daylight in Watseka

At 40.78° N, Watseka gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Watseka

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Milford, 10.3 miles away, with 1,111 people.