Neosho, Missouri

Neosho population, 2020 to 2024

Neosho added 1,056 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.3%. In the latest year it moved by +297. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Neosho is 1.1 times that size.

Neosho covers 15.60 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 883 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Neosho is less dense than the typical town.

What county Neosho is in

All of Neosho's residents live in Newton County, which had 61,519 residents in 2024. Neosho holds 22.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Neosho

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Neosho by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 64850. 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 Neosho is

The Census internal point of Neosho is at 36.845500, -94.376400. Jefferson City, the capital, is 169.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Joplin, MO (53,605 people), 17.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 54.7 miles away.

Daylight in Neosho

At 36.85° N, Neosho gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Neosho

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Goodman, 7.6 miles away, with 1,305 people.