Kirksville, Missouri

Kirksville population, 2020 to 2024

Kirksville added 322 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +288. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Kirksville is 1.5 times that size.

Kirksville covers 14.39 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,240 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Kirksville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kirksville is in

All of Kirksville's residents live in Adair County, which had 25,660 residents in 2024. Kirksville holds 69.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kirksville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kirksville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 63501. 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 Kirksville is

The Census internal point of Kirksville is at 40.198200, -92.574600. Jefferson City, the capital, is 113.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ottumwa, IA (25,648 people), 57.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbia, MO, 87.4 miles away.

Daylight in Kirksville

At 40.20° N, Kirksville gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kirksville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is La Plata, 12.8 miles away, with 1,244 people.