Wood Dale, Illinois

Wood Dale population, 2020 to 2024

Wood Dale lost 51 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +105. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 132nd; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Wood Dale is 95% of it.

Wood Dale covers 4.79 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 2,919 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Wood Dale is denser than the typical town.

What county Wood Dale is in

All of Wood Dale's residents live in DuPage County, which had 937,142 residents in 2024. Wood Dale holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wood Dale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wood Dale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60191. 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 Wood Dale is

The Census internal point of Wood Dale is at 41.966300, -87.980900. Springfield, the capital, is 174.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bensenville, IL (18,629 people), 2.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chicago, IL, 17.6 miles away.

Daylight in Wood Dale

At 41.97° N, Wood Dale gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wood Dale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Bensenville, 2.0 miles away, with 18,629 people.