Kansas City.
Missouri·
Neighborhoods
POPMEDIAN
Missouri·
Missouri
Foundation
Daily Life
Money & Work
Fair Housing. Race, ethnicity, language, national origin, income, disability, household makeup, commute and vehicle access, home tenure, and similar characteristics shown anywhere in this report are descriptive context only — never used to rate, score, or rank a place. Using protected-class characteristics to evaluate a neighborhood may violate the Fair Housing Act.
Missouri·Jackson County
31 neighborhoods·500K people·$243K median·1,589/mi²
violent · property Part-I incidents per 1,000 residents/yr · Kansas City PD reported, 2020–2021 · not official UCR · neighborhood comparison only. · Source: Crime Open Database (CODE), M. Ashby, CC BY 4.0.
White 54 · Black 25 · Hispanic 12 · Multiracial 5 · Asian 3 · Other 1
Living alone 38 · Married couple 36 · Other 26
Professional 33 · Health 22 · Retail 18 · Manufacturing 11 · Leisure 8 · Public admin 6 · Other 3
Management · business · science · arts 45 · Sales · office 20 · Service 16 · Production · transport 13 · Construction · maintenance 6
Drive alone 70 · Work from home 16 · Carpool 15 · Transit 2 · Walk 2 · Bike 0
Rep-tract reading · same station-interpolated source as address reports
Rep-tract reading · FEMA National Risk Index, national ranks 0–100; the tick is the national median
Showing up to 10 schools per level · School assignment depends on the exact address; open a neighborhood or address report to see your assigned schools.
| Neighborhood | Pop. | Home value |
|---|---|---|
| Gashland Heights | 24,114 | $335K |
| Nashua | 21,629 | $340K |
| Ivanhoe | 18,838 | $116K |
| Washington Wheatley | 18,427 | $97K |
| South Kansas City | 17,731 | $175K |
| East Side | 15,585 | $139K |
| Sunset Hills | 14,949 | $594K |
| Waldo | 13,289 | $308K |
The median home value in Kansas City is $242,900 (Census ACS) — 0.5× the US median of $458,812.
Kansas City has 510,612 residents across 160 census tracts and 47 named neighborhoods (Census ACS).
The median age is 35.8; the population is 54.0% White, 25.2% Black, 12.5% Hispanic or Latino, 4.7% Multiracial, 2.8% Asian and 0.8% Other; the average household has 2.3 people; 38.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher; the poverty rate is 14.7% (Census ACS).
RISING HILL ELEMENTARY (71%), SHOAL CREEK ELEM. (70%) and NORTHVIEW ELEMENTARY (66%) lead the elementary schools; Academie Lafayette Armour IMS (63%), GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER (61%) and LAKEVIEW MIDDLE (59%) lead the middle schools; FRONTIER STEM HIGH SCHOOL (70%), LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. (67%) and PARK HILL HIGH (67%) lead the high schools. Average of ELA and math proficiency (state DOE / NCES).
Median gross rent is $1,238/month, 22% below the US median (Census ACS).
The median household income in Kansas City is $69,166 a year, 20% below the US median (Census ACS).
In Kansas City, median rent is $1,238/month and the median home value is $242,900 (Census ACS).
Kansas City reported 14.8 violent crimes and 49.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents (FBI UCR, 2023).
Summer highs average 88°F; winter lows average 24°F; there are 76 comfortable days a year; annual rainfall is 39 inches (NOAA GridMET).
The highest-rated natural hazards in Kansas City are cold wave (95), heat wave (93) and tornado (87), scored 0–100 against all US communities (FEMA National Risk Index). Peak ground shaking is 0.07g (USGS; 2% chance in 50 years).
In Kansas City, 1.5% of workers walk to work (Census ACS).