Scott City, Missouri

Scott City population, 2020 to 2024

Scott City added 93 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +82.

Scott City covers 4.87 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 910 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Scott City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Scott City is in

All of Scott City's residents live in Scott County, which had 37,957 residents in 2024. Scott City holds 11.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Scott City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Scott City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 63780. 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 Scott City is

The Census internal point of Scott City is at 37.224500, -89.537600. Jefferson City, the capital, is 171.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cape Girardeau, MO (40,818 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 104.8 miles away.

Daylight in Scott City

At 37.22° N, Scott City gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Scott City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Cape Girardeau, 6.0 miles away, with 40,818 people.