Missouri · Census place 2940043

Lake St. Louis, Missouri

Lake St. Louis is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri with an estimated 19,160 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 39th largest of 338 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
19,160
#39 of 338 in Missouri
Change since 2020
+14.1%
+2,371 people
Land area
8.6 sq mi
+ 0.81 sq mi water
Density
2,241 / sq mi
State median 1,448
Orange pin: Lake St. Louis. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Jefferson City.

Lake St. Louis population, 2020 to 2024

Lake St. Louis added 2,371 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.1%. In the latest year it moved by +449. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Lake St. Louis is 1.6 times that size.

16.8k202017.3k202118.3k202218.7k202319.2k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 16,707. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Lake St. Louis covers 8.55 square miles of land and 0.81 of water, for 2,241 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Lake St. Louis is denser than the typical town.

What county Lake St. Louis is in

All of Lake St. Louis's residents live in St. Charles County, which had 423,726 residents in 2024. Lake St. Louis holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake St. Louis

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake St. Louis by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 63367. 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 Lake St. Louis is

The Census internal point of Lake St. Louis is at 38.779900, -90.785600. Jefferson City, the capital, is 76.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is O'Fallon, MO (95,355 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 30.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
38.779900, -90.785600
DMS
38°46'47.64"N 90°47'8.16"W
UTM
15N 692351.8E 4294681.1N
Geohash
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Plus code
86CFQ6H7+XQ

Daylight in Lake St. Louis

At 38.78° N, Lake St. Louis gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake St. Louis

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is O'Fallon, 3.5 miles away, with 95,355 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Lake St. Louis, MO?

19,160 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 2,371 (14.1%) from 16,789 in July 2020.

What county is Lake St. Louis in?

St. Charles County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Lake St. Louis?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 63367.

How far is Lake St. Louis from Jefferson City?

76.1 miles (122.5 km) in a straight line, heading W from Lake St. Louis.

What is the nearest larger city to Lake St. Louis?

O'Fallon, MO, with 95,355 residents, 3.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.