Kansas City Mayor Q Celebrates Sluggish Population Uptick

Actually . . .

LOOK AT THE NUMBER CLOSELY & NOTICE KANSAS CITY POPULATION GROWTH LAGGING!!!

The census tells us that average population growth for cities over 50K people is 1.0% and KC's count falls behind that number.

Moreover . . .

KC is counting over a larger timeframe . . . YTD numbers are much worse.

But we'll let the data and a recent city hall tweet speak for itself along with Mayor Q's reaction . . .

Municipal population estimates are out for the year ending July 1, 2024

Kansas City 2024: 516,032
Kansas City 2023: 511,300

4,732 people moved to KC last year (0.93% growth)

The city has added 7,936 people since April 2020

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Mayor Q: "This is undeniably good news, but we need to continue our ongoing work to repopulate the core of our city, particularly in east and south Kansas City, with infill housing development."

Update . . .

Actually, the news for the burbs is better . . . 

Fox4: Suburbs grow as Kansas City metro adds thousands of new residents

Developing . . .