Western Springs, Illinois

Western Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Western Springs lost 60 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +138. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 140th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Western Springs is 92% of it.

Western Springs covers 2.79 square miles of land, for 4,849 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Western Springs is denser than the typical town.

What county Western Springs is in

All of Western Springs's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Western Springs holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Western Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Western Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60558. 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 Western Springs is

The Census internal point of Western Springs is at 41.802300, -87.900600. Springfield, the capital, is 167.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Grange, IL (15,943 people), 1.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 11.4 miles away.

Daylight in Western Springs

At 41.80° N, Western Springs gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Western Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is La Grange, 1.4 miles away, with 15,943 people.