Wildwood, Missouri

Wildwood population, 2020 to 2024

Wildwood lost 308 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +97. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Wildwood is 2.9 times that size.

Wildwood covers 66.68 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 526 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Wildwood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wildwood is in

All of Wildwood's residents live in St. Louis County, which had 992,929 residents in 2024. Wildwood holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wildwood

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wildwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 63005, 63011, 63021, 63025, 63038, 63040, 63069. 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 Wildwood is

The Census internal point of Wildwood is at 38.577100, -90.667800. Jefferson City, the capital, is 81.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chesterfield, MO (49,465 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Louis, MO, 23.2 miles away.

Daylight in Wildwood

At 38.58° N, Wildwood gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wildwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Ellisville, 4.4 miles away, with 10,359 people.