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Kendall County, Illinois

Oswego

CountyKendall County
Freight groupingKendall County on the Fox River
ZIP codes60543
Data as ofCMAP 2026 release
Map of Oswego with bordering towns and rail ramps5 miN
Oswego (filled) with the towns around it, county lines (dashed) and intermodal rail ramps (squares). Boundaries: Census 2023. Ramps: BTS NTAD.

Oswego sits in Kendall County, in the Kendall County on the Fox River freight grouping on this site. Industrial land covers 415 acres (4.2% of the town) in CMAP's 2023 inventory, 67th of 220 towns here. It is mostly residential, with 10,965 jobs located here in 2023 (LEHD) for 34,585 residents in 2020. The nearest intermodal rail ramp in the federal atlas is Joliet, 17.6 mi away in a straight line.

415
Industrial acres, 4.2% of land (2023) [1]
10,965
Jobs located here (LEHD 2023) [1]
34,585
Residents, 2020 Census [1]
38,778
Residents, July 2024 estimate [2]
17.6 mi
To Joliet rail ramp [4]

Check a load in Oswego

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Reading the numbers

Oswego's 415 industrial acres put it in the middle of the regional range. Loads here are often a few dozen to a few hundred pallets at a time, so how many you have, and how they get on a truck, decides whether pickup is free.

Industrial property here carried $7.8 million of equalized assessed value in 2024 (Illinois Department of Revenue).

ZIP codes that overlap Oswego: 60543. Enter one on the Load Line to see the pickup verdict for a load here.

Oswego at a glance
Industrial land (CMAP 2023)415 acres (4.2%)
Transport, utility and right-of-way land (CMAP 2023)1,454 acres
Total area (CMAP 2023)9,820 acres
Jobs located here (LEHD 2023)10,965
Industrial EAV (IDOR 2024)$7.8 million
Residents (2020 Census)34,585
Residents (July 2024 estimate)38,778
Land area (Census Gazetteer)15.2 sq mi
Rail ramp: Joliet17.6 mi
Rail ramp: Joliet (Global IV)18.8 mi

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Sources

  1. CMAP Community Data Snapshots 2026. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Population from the 2020 Census (P.L. 94-171); jobs located in the place from LEHD 2023 (primary jobs); private-sector jobs from IDES Where Workers Work 2025; land use from the CMAP 2023 Land Use Inventory; industrial equalized assessed value from the Illinois Department of Revenue, 2024.
  2. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates. Subcounty resident population estimates, July 1, 2024 (file sub-est2024.csv).
  3. Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA relationship files. ZCTA-to-place and ZCTA-to-county land overlaps. A ZIP is listed for a town when at least 20% of the ZIP's land, or 10% of the town's land, overlaps.
  4. BTS National Transportation Atlas Database: Intermodal Freight Facilities, Rail TOFC/COFC. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, compiled 2018 and updated July 2022. Distances are straight-line miles from the place's internal point to the facility point.
  5. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files, 2023. 1:500,000 county and place boundaries, simplified for the maps. Bordering towns are those whose boundaries come within about 0.1 mile of each other.
  6. Natural Earth 1:10m lakes. Lake Michigan outline for the maps. Public domain.

Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Not legal advice and not a price quote. See how the figures are built.