Willard, Missouri

Willard population, 2020 to 2024

Willard added 260 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.1%. In the latest year it moved by +98. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 41st; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Willard is 54% of it.

Willard covers 6.05 square miles of land, for 1,096 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Willard is less dense than the typical town.

What county Willard is in

All of Willard's residents live in Greene County, which had 307,942 residents in 2024. Willard holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Willard

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Willard by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 65781, 65803. 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 Willard is

The Census internal point of Willard is at 37.293000, -93.417100. Jefferson City, the capital, is 111.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Republic, MO (21,392 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, MO, 9.7 miles away.

Daylight in Willard

At 37.29° N, Willard 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 Willard

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Republic, 8.6 miles away, with 21,392 people.