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Find an Area Profile with QuickFacts

For quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography, see the Census Bureau's State & County QuickFacts website, available directly from this link or under the Data tab at the top of the Census Bureau's home page. QuickFacts are summary profiles showing frequently requested data items from various Census Bureau programs and include data for all states, and counties, and for cities and towns with more than 25,000 people. Check out this handy web site today!

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School District Enrollment and Free and Reduced Meals (246k, updated 06/03/13)

Students enrolled and students receiving free or reduced cost meals by school district in the Kansas City CSA and Douglas County, KS, from 1992 through 2013.

Population Estimates for States, Counties and Cities (495k, updated 05/23/13)

Annual US Census Bureau population estimates for states and counties through 2012, and cities through 2012 in the Kansas City CSA. Includes components of change: births, deaths, and net migration.

Business Patterns by County (2.72M, updated 04/30/13)

Total number of employers and employees, annual payroll for all establishments in each county of the Kansas City MSA (beginning in 2002, the 2 counties in the CSA, along with Douglas County in Kansas, are also included), and number of establishments by employee size.  County Business Patterns excludes business owners who were self-employed, employees of private households, railroad employees, agriculture production workers and most government employees. Information on businesses without paid employees is released as part of the upcoming 2011 Nonemployer Statistics report.   Data are available since 1988 through 2011. Data for 1997 and earlier is tabulated by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.  Data for 1998 and later is tabulated by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.  A link is provided for accessing the bridge between the 2 classification systems. 

School Districts' Finances (1.55MB, updated 04/05/13)

Finances of public elementary and secondary school districts in the Kansas City CSA and Douglas County, KS, from 1992 through 2011. Data include enrollment, per pupil expenditure, source of revenue, operating and capital expenses and more.

American Housing Survey, 2011 (589k, updated 03/18/13)

The American Housing Survey (AHS) is a longitudinal housing unit survey conducted biennially in odd-numbered years. It provides current information on a wide range of housing subjects, including size and composition of the nation’s housing inventory, vacancies, physical condition of housing units, characteristics of occupants, indicators of housing and neighborhood quality, mortgages and other housing costs, persons eligible for and beneficiaries of assisted housing, home values, and characteristics of recent movers. This is the first time since 2002 that the Kansas City Metropolitan Area has been included in the AHS.

Employment, Unemployment, and Civilian Labor Force by State, MSA and County (810k, updated 01/30/13)

Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly estimates of the labor force, employment, unemployment and unemployment rates for the states of Kansas and Missouri, the Kansas City MSA, the CSA, their component counties, and Douglas County, through December 2013.

Employment, Unemployment and Civilian Labor Force by City (658k, updated 01/30/13)

Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly estimates of the labor force, employment, unemployment and unemployment rates for cities in the CSA and Douglas County with populations of 25,000 and over, through December 2013.

Population Estimates for States, Counties and Cities (476k, updated 01/11/13)

Annual US Census Bureau population estimates for states, counties, and cities through 2011 in the Kansas City CSA. Includes components of change: births, deaths, and net migration.

Health Insurance Coverage Estimates (426k, updated 01/11/13)

US Census Bureau's Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) of people with and without health insurance. These experimental measures area available for several years between 2000 and 2011, but are inherently different from year to year because they are part of an ongoing program that revises and improves the measurements.

Greater Kansas City Economic Forecast, 2013

The Economic Forecast is an annual report describing the national economic climate and its effects on the Kansas City area economy over the next eight quarters. The report estimates the region's expected change in output, income and employment, with employment broken down by industry. The forecast also includes outlooks for the states of Kansas and Missouri. A mid-year review will be provided at no cost to puchasers of the Forecast.

The 2013 Economic Forecast is available for $25 in printed or electronic format. To order a copy, contact Terry Anderson at 816/701-8250 or tanderson@marc.org or order online:

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Forecasts from 1992 through 2012 are also available for $10 each. Contact Terry Anderson for more information.

Annual Salary Survey of Local Governments

Effective with the 2013 salary survey, we will use a new web-based survey tool (Compensation Survey System or CSS) that will make the process much easier and give you more information. It will also provide much greater access to salary information anytime throughout the year and will allow you to select those entities that you consider as comparables and generate your own reports.

If you were a participant in the 2012 survey, your 2012 salary data has already been loaded into Compensation Survey System (CSS) to facilitate the transition process. You simply need to update the salary information for 2013.

Take advantage of the new Compensation Survey System to get instant reports»

Personal Income by Major Source and Earnings by Industry(Updated 11/27/12)

Annual estimates of income and earnings of workers by industry for Kansas, Missouri, the counties in the Kansas City MSA and in the Kansas City CSA, and Douglas County, Kan .