Missouri · Census place 2907660

Bowling Green, Missouri

Bowling Green is a city in Pike County, Missouri with an estimated 4,380 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 156th largest of 338 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,380
#156 of 338 in Missouri
Change since 2020
+9.4%
+377 people
Land area
2.7 sq mi
Density
1,628 / sq mi
State median 1,448
Orange pin: Bowling Green. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Jefferson City.

Bowling Green population, 2020 to 2024

Bowling Green added 377 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.4%. In the latest year it moved by +45.

4,00320204,05820214,13320224,33520234,3802024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,189. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Bowling Green covers 2.69 square miles of land, for 1,628 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Bowling Green is denser than the typical town.

What county Bowling Green is in

All of Bowling Green's residents live in Pike County, which had 17,961 residents in 2024. Bowling Green holds 24.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bowling Green

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bowling Green by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 63334. 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 Bowling Green is

The Census internal point of Bowling Green is at 39.344800, -91.202500. Jefferson City, the capital, is 74.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hannibal, MO (16,809 people), 27.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbia, MO, 66.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
39.344800, -91.202500
DMS
39°20'41.28"N 91°12'9.00"W
UTM
15N 654895.5E 4356581.2N
Geohash
9yzpuds25
Plus code
86FC8QVX+W2

Daylight in Bowling Green

At 39.34° N, Bowling Green gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bowling Green

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Louisiana, 10.0 miles away, with 3,244 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Bowling Green, MO?

4,380 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 377 (9.4%) from 4,003 in July 2020.

What county is Bowling Green in?

Pike County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Bowling Green?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 63334.

How far is Bowling Green from Jefferson City?

74.3 miles (119.5 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Bowling Green.

What is the nearest larger city to Bowling Green?

Hannibal, MO, with 16,809 residents, 27.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.