Des Peres, Missouri

Des Peres population, 2020 to 2024

Des Peres lost 17 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +37. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 89th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Des Peres is 75% of it.

Des Peres covers 4.32 square miles of land, for 2,123 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Des Peres is denser than the typical town.

What county Des Peres is in

All of Des Peres's residents live in St. Louis County, which had 992,929 residents in 2024. Des Peres holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Des Peres

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Des Peres by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 63122, 63131. 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 Des Peres is

The Census internal point of Des Peres is at 38.598400, -90.445300. Jefferson City, the capital, is 93.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kirkwood, MO (29,348 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 11.1 miles away.

Daylight in Des Peres

At 38.60° N, Des Peres gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Des Peres

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Kirkwood, 1.9 miles away, with 29,348 people.