Wauconda, Illinois

Wauconda population, 2020 to 2024

Wauconda lost 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +54. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 117th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Wauconda is 95% of it.

Wauconda covers 5.07 square miles of land and 0.69 of water, for 2,772 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Wauconda is denser than the typical town.

What county Wauconda is in

All of Wauconda's residents live in Lake County, which had 718,604 residents in 2024. Wauconda holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wauconda

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wauconda by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60084. 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 Wauconda is

The Census internal point of Wauconda is at 42.277000, -88.135300. Springfield, the capital, is 189.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Round Lake, IL (18,654 people), 4.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 19.1 miles away.

Daylight in Wauconda

At 42.28° N, Wauconda gets about 15 h 17 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 Wauconda

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Island Lake, 3.3 miles away, with 8,066 people.