Kirksville Police Dept
Kirksville is home to two major universities whose enrollment data is not totally reflected in the census figure. Truman State University has 720 students listed other than white. They also have an additional 388 international students not included in the 720. A.T. Still University reports that approximately 30% of their students are listed as non-white. The majority of ATSU students, 99%, come from outside the Kirksville area. The City of Kirksville has also seen a significant increase of families from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last decade. As an example, the Kirksville RIII School District reports 120 students enrolled in K-12 for the 2021-2022 school year who are Congolese. Kirksville is located on one of the few major north-south highways (Highway 63) that services northern Missouri and southern Iowa. Kirksville is the largest city for miles and is the cultural/economic hub for a very large area. This expands the pool of those not counted in the city's census information.