Schuyler County area

Population and density of Schuyler County

The Census Bureau estimates that 4,140 people lived in Schuyler County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,951 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #112 of 115 in Missouri. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 4,029, the population has grown by 111 (+2.8%), compared with +1.9% for Missouri as a whole.

With 307.3 square miles of land, that is 13 people per square mile (5.2 per km²), placing Schuyler County #2,517 nationally for density and #96 in Missouri. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Missouri median is 31. Put another way, there are about 48 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Schuyler County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Schuyler County. Together they are home to 2,062 people (49.8%); the other 2,078 (50.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Lancaster city, with 691 residents in the county.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Schuyler County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Schuyler County is an outlying county of the Kirksville, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 29,824 residents on 874.6 square miles of land; Schuyler County accounts for 35.1% of the land and 13.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #232 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #441 by population.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Schuyler County; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

635356353663541635466354863561

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Schuyler County

Schuyler County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 2 in Iowa. Each of them has more land than Schuyler County. The largest neighbor is Adair County (567.3 mi²) and the smallest is Scotland County (436.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Schuyler County forms a block of 2,827.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.9%.

How big is Schuyler County compared with U.S. states?

Schuyler County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.4 times as much. Missouri’s county land could hold about 224 areas the size of Schuyler County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 17.5 miles (28.2 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Schuyler County?

Schuyler County has more land than 429 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Schuyler County at #2,830 nationally by total area, 37 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.9 percentage points lower. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Schuyler County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.