A coil component includes a drum core including a winding core portion and flange portions on opposite sides of the winding core portion in its axial direction, a wire wound around the winding core portion, and a sheet core arranged on a top surface of each of the flange portions and on the wire with an adhesive interposed therebetween. The adhesive contains no filler. A shortest distance between the top surface of the flange portion and the sheet core is not smaller than about 3 μm.