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Berkeley is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis in St. Louis County, Missouri, that was incorporated in 1937 and named after Berkeley Acres, a planned community.

Portions of St. Louis Lambert International Airport lie within Berkeley's city limits, and the airport dominates the city's land use and economy.

Berkeley had 8,228 residents at the 2020 census, down from 8,978 in 2010, continuing a long decline from its late-20th-century size.

About three-quarters of Berkeley's residents are Black — 76.5% at the 2020 census — making Berkeley one of the majority-Black suburbs of north St. Louis County.

Berkeley covers 4.97 square miles, all of it land, with a population density of about 1,658 people per square mile in 2020.

Because of the airport and surrounding industry, Berkeley's daytime population more than doubles on workdays, swelling by an estimated 123% over its resident population.

On June 7, 1975, a federal court ordered the Ferguson-Florissant School District to annex the Berkeley and Kinloch school districts, and Berkeley students have attended Ferguson-Florissant schools ever since.

Berkeley High School closed in December 2003 because of the Lambert airport expansion and was replaced in January 2004 by McCluer South-Berkeley High School in neighboring Ferguson, known since 2019 as the STEAM Academy at McCluer South-Berkeley.

Berkeley High School's Bulldogs won the Missouri Class 3A state football championship in 1987, and Berkeley and McCluer South-Berkeley teams together won dozens of state track and field titles.

Berkeley's median household income was estimated at $44,656 in 2024, well below the St. Louis County average despite the city's airport-driven job base.