Missouri · Census place 2971890

Sweet Springs, Missouri

Sweet Springs is a city in Saline County, Missouri with an estimated 1,331 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 297th largest of 338 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,331
#297 of 338 in Missouri
Change since 2020
+0.5%
+6 people
Land area
1.7 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
802 / sq mi
State median 1,448
Orange pin: Sweet Springs. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Jefferson City.

Sweet Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Sweet Springs added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +4.

1,32520201,31820211,30120221,32720231,3312024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,324. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Sweet Springs covers 1.66 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 802 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Sweet Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sweet Springs is in

All of Sweet Springs's residents live in Saline County, which had 23,325 residents in 2024. Sweet Springs holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sweet Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sweet Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 65351. 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 Sweet Springs is

The Census internal point of Sweet Springs is at 38.964300, -93.416500. Jefferson City, the capital, is 72.1 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Concordia, MO (2,358 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Independence, MO, 50.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
38.964300, -93.416500
DMS
38°57'51.48"N 93°24'59.40"W
UTM
15N 463916.4E 4312897.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
86C8XH7M+PC

Daylight in Sweet Springs

At 38.96° N, Sweet Springs gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sweet Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Concordia, 8.4 miles away, with 2,358 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Sweet Springs, MO?

1,331 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 6 (0.5%) from 1,325 in July 2020.

What county is Sweet Springs in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Sweet Springs?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 65351.

How far is Sweet Springs from Jefferson City?

72.1 miles (116.0 km) in a straight line, heading ESE from Sweet Springs.

What is the nearest larger city to Sweet Springs?

Concordia, MO, with 2,358 residents, 8.3 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.