Is Worth County, MO's population growing or shrinking?
Refreshed annually
It grew by two between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population can reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. The 0.1% annual increase was primarily driven by births outpacing deaths.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Worth County, MO’s population shrank by 6.3%.
+2
population change (2024 to 2025)
+0.1%
percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Worth County, MO’s population increased 5 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2009 and 2010, when Worth County, MO gained 145 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2000 and 2001 when there were 79 fewer residents.
Worth County, MO gained two residents between 2024 and 2025.
Annual population change, 2001–2025
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What contributes to population change in Worth County, MO?
A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
- Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was positive in Worth County, MO, with births exceeding deaths by two.
- Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, Worth County, MO’s population change from immigration was negative with about one more person leaving for another country directly from Worth County, MO than coming.
- Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, Worth County, MO’s population change from domestic migration was positive with about zero more people moving from any other county in the US.
Between 2024 and 2025, natural change was the primary driver of population growth in Worth County, MO.
Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025
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