Blue Springs, Missouri

Blue Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Blue Springs added 2,366 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +655. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Blue Springs is 5.0 times that size.

Blue Springs covers 22.78 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 2,689 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Blue Springs is denser than the typical town.

What county Blue Springs is in

All of Blue Springs's residents live in Jackson County, which had 727,362 residents in 2024. Blue Springs holds 8.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blue Springs

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Blue Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 64014, 64015. 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 Blue Springs is

The Census internal point of Blue Springs is at 39.012000, -94.267600. Jefferson City, the capital, is 116.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Independence, MO (121,629 people), 6.8 miles away.

Daylight in Blue Springs

At 39.01° N, Blue Springs gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blue Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Grain Valley, 2.8 miles away, with 16,859 people.