We’re learning more about ourselves as the Census Bureau releases more figures from the 2000 nose count. Kansas City remains our largest city – 441,545. St. Louis is down to 348,189. The census figures show the median household income in Kansas City is about $10,000 a year more than St. Louis, at more than $37,000. The median value of homeowner owned houses in Kansas City is about $20,000 more than in St. Louis. The percentage of St. Louis’s population in poverty is almost double that of Kansas City.
