De Soto, Missouri

De Soto population, 2020 to 2024

De Soto added 56 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +9. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 74th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so De Soto is 53% of it.

De Soto covers 4.38 square miles of land, for 1,485 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so De Soto is close to the typical town.

What county De Soto is in

All of De Soto's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 231,888 residents in 2024. De Soto holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in De Soto

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps De Soto by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 63020. 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 De Soto is

The Census internal point of De Soto is at 38.141100, -90.560800. Jefferson City, the capital, is 92.4 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Festus, MO (13,730 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 38.2 miles away.

Daylight in De Soto

At 38.14° N, De Soto gets about 14 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near De Soto

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Hillsboro, 6.4 miles away, with 3,489 people.