Missouri · Census place 2956756

Peculiar, Missouri

Peculiar is a city in Cass County, Missouri with an estimated 6,226 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 117th largest of 338 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
6,226
#117 of 338 in Missouri
Change since 2020
+10.0%
+567 people
Land area
9.1 sq mi
+ 0.04 sq mi water
Density
686 / sq mi
State median 1,448
Orange pin: Peculiar. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Jefferson City.

Peculiar population, 2020 to 2024

Peculiar added 567 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.0%. In the latest year it moved by +135. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Peculiar is 51% of it.

5,65920205,84720215,94920226,09120236,2262024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 5,613. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Peculiar covers 9.07 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 686 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Peculiar is less dense than the typical town.

What county Peculiar is in

All of Peculiar's residents live in Cass County, which had 113,873 residents in 2024. Peculiar holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Peculiar

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Peculiar by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 64078. 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 Peculiar is

The Census internal point of Peculiar is at 38.730800, -94.468600. Jefferson City, the capital, is 124.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Raymore, MO (25,962 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lee's Summit, MO, 13.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
38.730800, -94.468600
DMS
38°43'50.88"N 94°28'6.96"W
UTM
15N 372347.8E 4287927.6N
Geohash
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Plus code
86C7PGJJ+8H

Daylight in Peculiar

At 38.73° N, Peculiar 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 Peculiar

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Raymore, 5.0 miles away, with 25,962 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Peculiar, MO?

6,226 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 567 (10.0%) from 5,659 in July 2020.

What county is Peculiar in?

Cass County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Peculiar?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 64078.

How far is Peculiar from Jefferson City?

124.3 miles (200.0 km) in a straight line, heading E from Peculiar.

What is the nearest larger city to Peculiar?

Raymore, MO, with 25,962 residents, 5.0 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.