Census Figures Show KC Still State’s Largest City

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.