This section of our website is specifically designed for consultants or companies looking to locate or expand facilities to Kirksville or our region.
Why Locate in Kirksville
Kirksville and the surrounding region enjoy a high quality of life. From our outstanding outdoor recreation to our nationally award winning education and healthcare facilities, Kirksville is a wonderful place to live, work and conduct your business.
Demographic Information
| Population 2023: | |
| Adair County | 25,122 |
| Kirksville | 17,483 |
| Population Density | |
| Adair County | 44.6/sq. mile |
| Education (2017-2021) | |
| 12 years or more of education | 92% |
| Bachelor's degree or higher | 34.3% |
| Taxable Sales | |
| Kirksville | $277,126,660 |
| Adair County | $281,289,082.95 |
| Median Household Income | |
| Adair County | $51,020 |
| Kirksville | $41,089 |
Infrastructure:
Missouri is within 500 miles of:
- 43% of U.S. population and household
- 41% of total U.S. effective buying income
- 40% of total U.S. personal income
- 44% of total U.S. wholesale trade
- 41% of total U.S. service industries
- 44% of total U.S. manufacturing establishments
Kirksville Community Profile Document:
If you are interested in learning more about our community and its demographics, please visit the following link: Kirksville Demographic Information
Our Work Forces
Kirksville has a well-educated and highly skilled quality workforce. Truman State University (Missouri’s liberal arts and sciences university) and A.T. Still University (our local medical and dental university) provide a consistent pool of qualified individuals prepared for the workplace. The most recent Workforce Quality Study shows our potential employees score higher than the state or national average in educational achievement. This means finding skilled employees a much easier process. Also, a large number of employees are available from the rural areas surrounding Kirksville because of acceptable commuting times.
You will find an available, educable, diverse and affordable workforce in Kirksville and the surrounding northeastern region. Let us prove that to you by conducting a specific survey on behalf of your company or client.
Additionally, we are a Certified Work Ready community through ACT
Available Properties
To view potential building sites or available locations for your business:
Available Buildings
Available Land
Available Industrial Land – Certified with the State of Missouri Certified Sites Program
Kirksville is a growing community with several unique opportunities for new or expanding businesses. Within this section, you will learn how to discover more about the available opportunities we have for businesses moving into our region.
Incentives
Our community has a great record of working with the Missouri Department of Economic Development in developing some very aggressive and innovative incentive packages. Our K-REDI Executive Director, Anastasia Tiedemann has a great working knowledge of their incentive programs and the individuals involved in decision making. Missouri has over 50 tax credit programs, as well as job creation refundable tax credits (Missouri Works), Tax Increment Financing, and Missouri Development Finance Board Programs. K-REDI works to partner these with our local incentives to put together the best incentive package possible for your business or client.
Kirksville is also in an Enterprise Zone and an Opportunity Zone. Local abatement decisions can be made for worthy and deserving projects on an individual basis.
To see if you qualify for any incentives, please call our office at (660) 665-2003, or email our director at atiedemann@kirksvillecity.com.
Hiring more employees or investing capital – Missouri Works could benefit you.
Infrastructure
Highways
Kirksville has a solid offering of modern infrastructure, with two major highways – US Highway 63 and Missouri Highway 6. Highway 63 is a divided interstate configuration and is a major North-South corridor connecting Kirksville and Columbia, MO. Highway 63 also connects Kirksville to US Highway 36 (an East-West interstate configured divided highway route between St. Joseph and Hannibal) just 30 miles to the south, and Interstate 70 (connecting Kansas City and St. Louis) is located just 90 miles south.
Missouri Highway 6 is a two-lane highway that connects Interstate 35 to Kirksville and other points east to the Missouri State Line.
The State of Missouri has the 6th largest highway system in the country and utilizes it in it’s role as the crossroads of the US. Because of our central US location, Missouri is located within 500 miles of 43% of the total US population and 44% of all US manufacturers.
Kirksville has a modern regional airport with over 6,000 feet of runway and modern landing systems and lighting. Located four miles south of Kirksville on the west side of Highway 63, the Kirksville Regional Airport has been an important part of Kirksville and Adair County since the early 1930s when it was created as a backup military airport. Federal grants and fuel sales currently provide the funding for operations of the airport.
Flying Fox Aviation is on-site as an Aircraft mechanic A&P. For more information, call (660) 216-1220.
Contour Airlines provides Two flights a day, seven days a week, from Kirksville to Chicago O’Hare ORD International Airport. Connect to the world with fast, affordable daily flights to Chicago. Enjoy convenient baggage check-through, free airport parking at the Kirksville Regional Airport and reach your destination in just over an hour!
Specifications:
Runway
- #18-36 6,004 x 100 feet concrete
- #9-27 1,390 x 110 feet turf
Landing System:
- LOC/DME
- VOR DME B or GPS
- VOR A or GPS
- VOR DME RNAV or GPS
Lighting System:
- High intensity- Pilot controlled on runway and taxiway lights
- #18 REIL lights
- #36 MALS lights
- 3-5-7 sec
- Clicks low, medium, high
Utilities
| Tri-County Electric | |
| Tri-County Electric | 660-457-3733 |
| Ameren Missouri Rates | |
| Ameren Missouri | 800-552-7583 |
| Service Area | 24,500 square miles |
| Customers | 1.2 million |
| Power Generation | Power plants statewide |
| System peak demand | 7,430 MW |
| NATURAL GAS | |
| Liberty Utilities | (855) 872-3242 or (660) 665-4280 |
| Service areas include Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Texas | |
| WASTE MANAGEMENT | |
| RTS Waste Services LLC | (660) 784-2474 |
| Location | Slater, MO |
Services Include:
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| WATER | |
| Water Services | |
| City of Kirksville | (660) 627-1251 |
| Sources | Hazel Creek Lake and Forest Lake |
| Daily use | 2,700,000 gallons |
| Storage capacity | 3,900,000 gallons |
| Daily pumping and treating capacity | 6,000,000 gallons |
| Treatment types | Aluminum sulfate, lime, caustic soda, chlorine dioxide, free residual chlorine |
| WASTEWATER | |
| Sewer Services | |
| City of Kirksville | (660) 665-2861 |
| Daily use | 2,600,000 gallons |
| Daily capacity | 12,000,000 gallons |
| Amount of city served | 100% |
| System type | Fixed media |
| New $18M wastewater treatment plant completed in 2017 | |
| COMMUNICATIONS & DATA | |
| AT&T | (888) 370-3049 |
| Sparklight | (855) 568-0194 |
| Bluebird Network | (855) BLUEBIRD |
| Mark Twain Communications | (660) 423-5211 |
| Socket | (800) 762-5383 |
| NEMR | (660) 874-4111 |
UPS
The Kirksville Community is served by a Regional UPS Hub with daily pickup and delivery services Monday through Friday. Any parcel, picked up by 5 PM anywhere in the U.S. , can be shipped and received in Kirksville by 8 AM the following day.
