Missouri · United States
Cape Girardeau population
39,462people · latest figure
Cape Girardeau has a population of 39,462, making it the 1116th largest place we list in United States. It is in Missouri.
Cape Girardeau holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 223 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 35,904, a rise of 10%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Cape Girardeau is in Missouri, which has 518 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Hallandale Beach | Florida | 39,488 |
| Clovis | New Mexico | 39,480 |
| Weslaco | Texas | 39,474 |
| Bullhead City | Arizona | 39,445 |
| North Fort Myers | Florida | 39,407 |
| Dover | Delaware | 39,403 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.