Winnetka, Illinois

Winnetka population, 2020 to 2024

Winnetka lost 202 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +107. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 200th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Winnetka is 85% of it.

Winnetka covers 3.81 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 3,279 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Winnetka is denser than the typical town.

What county Winnetka is in

All of Winnetka's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Winnetka holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Winnetka

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Winnetka by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60093. 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 Winnetka is

The Census internal point of Winnetka is at 42.106200, -87.742800. Springfield, the capital, is 189.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilmette, IL (27,443 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 18.8 miles away.

Daylight in Winnetka

At 42.11° N, Winnetka gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Winnetka

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Northfield, 1.8 miles away, with 5,625 people.