Holding an event in Joplin
What it takes to run an event in Joplin, Missouri: 12 mapped venues, their stated capacities, and the travel around them. Joplin Regional Airport is 7 km (4.3 mi) out.
Where Joplin holds a crowd
Joplin has a recorded population of 53,605 (2024), inside the Joplin, MO-KS area of about 207,000 people.
What is on the books here: 1 arena or stadium and 11 independent event spaces.
That is roughly 22 venues per hundred thousand residents, which is a dense field for a city this size — you will usually have a second choice at the same capacity.
By type that is 11 event spaces and 1 stadium.
Arenas and stadiums (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred G. Hughes Stadium | stadium | not published | 5.1 km (3.2 mi) |
Independent event spaces (11)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 66 Drive-In | event space | not published | 16 km (10 mi) |
| Coleman Theatre | event space | not published | 40 km (25 mi) |
| Elks Club Lodge No. 501 | event space | not published | 0.4 km (0.2 mi) |
| The Ramsay | event space | not published | 0.2 km (0.1 mi) |
| Fox Theatre | event space | not published | 0.5 km (0.3 mi) |
| Historic Phelps House | event space | not published | 20 km (13 mi) |
| Carthage Memorial Hall | event space | not published | 20 km (13 mi) |
| Scottish Rite Cathedral | event space | not published | 0.4 km (0.2 mi) |
| 96 Elite | event space | not published | 13 km (8.1 mi) |
| Civic Center | event space | not published | 27 km (17 mi) |
| Mining Days Building | event space | not published | 7.4 km (4.6 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Joplin appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.
Getting attendees to Joplin
Joplin Regional Airport (JLN) sits 7 km (4.3 mi) from the centre, close enough that a same-day arrival is realistic for most of your speakers.
Joplin keeps Chicago time (America/Chicago), which matters most for the remote speakers you are dialling in.
Pittsburg, Bentonville and Rogers are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Joplin has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- JLN
- Joplin Regional Airport, 7 km (4.3 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−5
- America/Chicago, in September
- City population, 2024
- 53,605
- 207,000 across the Joplin, MO-KS area
Before you hold a date
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Joplin dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.
No published capacities
Not one Joplin venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.
The city is smaller than the market
53,605 people live in Joplin itself, but about 207,000 live in the wider Joplin, MO-KS. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
Pricing this against a real Joplin room
A Joplin programme at 240 activated attendees — a mid-sized Joplin programme, since no Joplin venue publishes a capacity in open data — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- activated attendees
- 240activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 190billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $950for the whole event, at $5 each
You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Joplin does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Matching the room to the format
No capacity is published for any Joplin venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- community meetings
Nothing in Joplin publishes a capacity, so start with the format that scales down: a single room, one track, no exhibition.
- networking mixers
A mixer works in almost any room, which makes it the safe first event in a new city.
Where this data comes from
- GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
- Wikidata, CC0
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Price a Joplin event at 240 attendees — what is the total?
240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
How big an event can Joplin hold?
No Joplin venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 12 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.
Can you run a trade show in Joplin?
Nothing in the Joplin dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Pittsburg. For a conference without an exhibition, the 12 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Joplin?
Joplin Regional Airport (JLN), about 7 km (4.3 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/Chicago; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
Can I run a small Joplin event on event67 for nothing?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
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Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.