The state surpassed 6.27 million residents in 2025, according to the figures cited in the original report. Much of the growth ...

Between 2020 - 2024 Randolph and Audrain counties both experienced a population decline of 2.6%. Immigration is the largest contributor to Missouri’s growing population, according to census data ...

St. Louis Public Schools was one of America’s largest school systems in the late-1960s, educating 115,000 students at its peak. But at the beginning of the 2026–27 academic year, after decades of ...

Missouri, with its 3.4 million population, stood as the ninth largest American state at the time of the 1920 census, having barely been surpassed by one of the burgeoning western states, California.

Immigration is the largest contributor to Missouri’s growing population, according to census data analyzed by MU Extension. “Natural change” is the difference between births and deaths in a population ...