Excelsior Springs, Missouri

Excelsior Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Excelsior Springs added 142 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +97. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 66th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Excelsior Springs is 88% of it.

Excelsior Springs covers 10.84 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 990 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Excelsior Springs is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Excelsior Springs spans

Excelsior Springs crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 10,727 residents as follows; Clay County holds 98.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Excelsior Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Excelsior Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 64024. 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 Excelsior Springs is

The Census internal point of Excelsior Springs is at 39.339900, -94.241000. Jefferson City, the capital, is 122.9 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kearney, MO (11,215 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Independence, MO, 18.6 miles away.

Daylight in Excelsior Springs

At 39.34° N, Excelsior Springs 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 Excelsior Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Kearney, 6.4 miles away, with 11,215 people.