Kearney, Missouri

Kearney population, 2020 to 2024

Kearney added 751 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.2%. In the latest year it moved by +145. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Kearney is 92% of it.

Kearney covers 13.33 square miles of land, for 841 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Kearney is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kearney is in

All of Kearney's residents live in Clay County, which had 263,370 residents in 2024. Kearney holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kearney

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kearney by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 64060. 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 Kearney is

The Census internal point of Kearney is at 39.355100, -94.358600. Jefferson City, the capital, is 129.1 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Liberty, MO (31,245 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Independence, MO, 18.6 miles away.

Daylight in Kearney

At 39.36° N, Kearney 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 Kearney

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Excelsior Springs, 6.4 miles away, with 10,727 people.