Wonder Lake, Illinois

Wonder Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Wonder Lake added 1,326 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +33.4%. In the latest year it moved by +401. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Wonder Lake is 36% of it.

Wonder Lake covers 4.96 square miles of land and 1.16 of water, for 1,068 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Wonder Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wonder Lake is in

All of Wonder Lake's residents live in McHenry County, which had 315,959 residents in 2024. Wonder Lake holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wonder Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wonder Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 60097. 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 Wonder Lake is

The Census internal point of Wonder Lake is at 42.383400, -88.350000. Springfield, the capital, is 192.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McHenry, IL (28,825 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elgin, IL, 23.8 miles away.

Daylight in Wonder Lake

At 42.38° N, Wonder Lake gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wonder Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Bull Valley, 4.2 miles away, with 1,136 people.