Bolivar, Missouri

Bolivar population, 2020 to 2024

Bolivar added 745 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.9%. In the latest year it moved by +191. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Bolivar is 94% of it.

Bolivar covers 8.23 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,403 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Bolivar is close to the typical town.

What county Bolivar is in

All of Bolivar's residents live in Polk County, which had 33,070 residents in 2024. Bolivar holds 34.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bolivar

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bolivar by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 65613. 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 Bolivar is

The Census internal point of Bolivar is at 37.606700, -93.416700. Jefferson City, the capital, is 95.3 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Springfield, MO (170,596 people), 29.3 miles away.

Daylight in Bolivar

At 37.61° N, Bolivar gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bolivar

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Buffalo, 17.7 miles away, with 3,512 people.