{"id":892,"date":"2021-08-25T15:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/?p=892"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:41:12","slug":"missouri-surpassed-6-million-persons-in-the-2010s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/missouri-surpassed-6-million-persons-in-the-2010s\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Surpassed 6 Million Persons in the 2010s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Census Bureau has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/state-by-state.html\">a collection of state population profiles for 2020<\/a> as part of its &#8220;America Counts&#8221; story series.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri now has a population of 6,154,913 and 2,786,621 housing units.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2010 and 2020, Missouri&#8217;s population increased by 165,986, or 2.8%. By comparison, the overall U.S. population increase was 7.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri&#8217;s under-18 population decreased over the past 10 years by 3.2%, while the adult population increased by 4.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Some key figures about the population of the entire United States, for comparison:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Population was up to 331.4 million.<\/li>\n<li>The Diversity Index went up to 61.1%, from 54.9%.<\/li>\n<li>The under-18 population decreased by 1.4%, and the adult population increased by 10.1%.<\/li>\n<li>The number of housing units went up 6.7%, and vacancies went down to 9.7% of all housing units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the U.S. Census Bureau&#8217;s Missouri profile page to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Census Bureau has published a collection of state population profiles for 2020 as part of its &#8220;America Counts&#8221; story series. Missouri now has a population of 6,154,913 and 2,786,621 housing units. Between 2010 and 2020, Missouri&#8217;s population increased by 165,986, or 2.8%. By comparison, the overall U.S. population increase was 7.4%. Missouri&#8217;s under-18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,22,70],"tags":[73,108,27,107,109],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news","category-united-states","tag-census-2020","tag-nation","tag-population","tag-states","tag-usa"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}