City in Illinois, United States

Effingham

Effingham is a city in Effingham County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat.

Every way there

St Louis → Effingham
153 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · $13–18
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Indianapolis → Effingham
217 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · $18–25
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Chicago → Effingham
313 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · $27–37
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Effingham, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Effingham has

NScheduled flightsnearest airport STL is 163 km away
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Decatur, 86 km.

39.128°, -88.549°

It is in South Central Illinois. Its population was 12,252 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Effingham micropolitan statistical area.

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