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Ferguson, MO Road Trips

Plan drives from Ferguson, MO with practical route pages for distance, drive time, fuel cost, road character, and places to stop along the way.

Downtown Ferguson, MO, MO

Photo: Lena Khrupina

Trip Routes

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Longest Drive

240.2 mi

Kansas City, MO

Quickest Drive

4h 37m

Kansas City, MO

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Ferguson, MO by the Numbers

Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

Population

18,350

Median Income

$46,106

Median Home Value

$99,300

Median Age

36.0

Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.

Traveler Guide to Ferguson, MO

Ferguson is a town in northern St. Louis County, Missouri. It is a suburb of St. Louis.

Ferguson features high poverty and crime rates, and is a low-income community. There are no tourist attractions in this area.

1 Ferguson's Brewing Company, 418 S Florissant Rd, ☏ +1 314 254-7359. (updated Dec 2020)

Metro St. Louis runs several bus lines from downtown to different parts of Ferguson. 1 North County Transit Center, 3140 Pershall Rd. Major transit center serving the northern parts of Ferguson. (updated Dec 2020)

Ferguson gained notoriety due to widespread riots in 2014, provoked by police who fatally shot Michael Brown on a street in broad daylight. Multiple journalists were arrested in an attempt to obstruct coverage of the unrest. There has been a long history of racial tension, with police targeting minorities with exorbitant fines for relatively minor offences; as this represents revenue to the municipality, judges do little to curb the abuses. Nominally, things have since returned to normal and you should be fine if you exercise common sense, but this is not the best neighborhood in the city.

Travel tips adapted from Ferguson on Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Content summarized; visit the source for the full article. See our methodology for how we use it.

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