Kansas: county data, all 105 of them.
Every Kansas county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Kansas statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.
- Counties
- 105
- Population
- 2,947,197
- Land area
- 81,759 sq mi
- Establishments
- 75,464
- Combined county GDP
- $230.52 bn
- SBA approvals recorded
- 3,718
Read this first
This is a county directory, not a state guide.
The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.
What is missing is the Kansas legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Kansas, and no such pack exists yet.
Why there is no state guide here
You cannot write Kansas zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.
Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.
Counties
All 105 Kansas county-equivalents.
| Geography | Population | Median income | Establishments | County GDP | SBA approvals | Land area, sq mi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen County | 12,483 | $60,689 | 353 | $703.0 m | 11 | 500 |
| Anderson County | 7,834 | $70,614 | 198 | $500.5 m | 3 | 580 |
| Atchison County | 16,208 | $61,112 | 364 | $845.3 m | 6 | 431 |
| Barber County | 4,069 | $61,926 | 172 | $228.6 m | 6 | 1,134 |
| Barton County | 25,097 | $58,851 | 866 | $1.62 bn | 40 | 895 |
| Bourbon County | 14,394 | $59,238 | 363 | $748.5 m | 18 | 635 |
| Brown County | 9,343 | $62,233 | 277 | $702.1 m | 4 | 571 |
| Butler County | 68,287 | $81,610 | 1,396 | $3.84 bn | 88 | 1,430 |
| Chase County | 2,561 | $56,484 | 60 | $146.8 m | 1 | 773 |
| Chautauqua County | 3,370 | $56,438 | 69 | $101.0 m | 4 | 639 |
| Cherokee County | 19,151 | $57,668 | 325 | $1.09 bn | 7 | 588 |
| Cheyenne County | 2,628 | $55,429 | 105 | $173.7 m | 6 | 1,020 |
| Clark County | 1,974 | $63,043 | 60 | $279.4 m | 1 | 975 |
| Clay County | 8,048 | $66,176 | 261 | $352.3 m | 4 | 645 |
| Cloud County | 8,898 | $58,770 | 287 | $516.4 m | 4 | 715 |
| Coffey County | 8,308 | $70,346 | 203 | $927.7 m | 4 | 627 |
| Comanche County | 1,729 | $54,545 | 70 | $70.7 m | None recorded | 788 |
| Cowley County | 34,411 | $57,878 | 719 | $1.70 bn | 18 | 1,126 |
| Crawford County | 39,008 | $52,844 | 901 | $2.16 bn | 34 | 590 |
| Decatur County | 2,726 | $53,870 | 98 | $222.5 m | 7 | 894 |
| Dickinson County | 18,445 | $68,417 | 461 | $853.8 m | 11 | 847 |
| Doniphan County | 7,503 | $74,028 | 160 | $352.3 m | 3 | 393 |
| Douglas County | 120,302 | $69,746 | 2,774 | $7.03 bn | 161 | 456 |
| Edwards County | 2,779 | $52,692 | 72 | $236.0 m | 9 | 622 |
| Elk County | 2,453 | $64,609 | 54 | $102.3 m | None recorded | 644 |
| Ellis County | 28,920 | $63,084 | 1,110 | $2.05 bn | 128 | 900 |
| Ellsworth County | 6,360 | $65,560 | 152 | $310.3 m | 4 | 716 |
| Finney County | 38,084 | $73,009 | 1,044 | $3.11 bn | 61 | 1,302 |
| Ford County | 34,074 | $70,781 | 803 | $3.22 bn | 17 | 1,098 |
| Franklin County | 26,106 | $77,207 | 533 | $1.17 bn | 28 | 572 |
| Geary County | 35,815 | $59,317 | 566 | $3.75 bn | 20 | 385 |
| Gove County | 2,799 | $66,029 | 127 | $280.6 m | 6 | 1,072 |
| Graham County | 2,389 | $50,650 | 91 | $185.6 m | 4 | 899 |
| Grant County | 7,229 | $66,476 | 210 | $641.6 m | 14 | 575 |
| Gray County | 5,701 | $79,122 | 228 | $997.5 m | 5 | 869 |
| Greeley County | 1,304 | $80,565 | 42 | $280.7 m | None recorded | 778 |
| Greenwood County | 5,919 | $60,042 | 160 | $208.9 m | 5 | 1,143 |
| Hamilton County | 2,471 | $70,250 | 74 | $422.9 m | 5 | 997 |
| Harper County | 5,400 | $53,488 | 185 | $420.9 m | 6 | 801 |
| Harvey County | 33,756 | $74,368 | 778 | $1.76 bn | 18 | 540 |
| Haskell County | 3,641 | $66,162 | 129 | $519.8 m | 5 | 578 |
| Hodgeman County | 1,652 | $59,955 | 44 | $199.4 m | 1 | 860 |
| Jackson County | 13,341 | $75,215 | 260 | $507.8 m | 5 | 656 |
| Jefferson County | 18,349 | $81,278 | 316 | $501.0 m | 23 | 533 |
| Jewell County | 2,916 | $52,634 | 81 | $142.5 m | None recorded | 910 |
| Johnson County | 620,631 | $109,208 | 18,999 | $67.01 bn | 1,260 | 473 |
| Kearny County | 3,864 | $89,135 | 83 | $265.4 m | 7 | 871 |
| Kingman County | 7,186 | $59,842 | 210 | $333.9 m | 9 | 863 |
| Kiowa County | 2,422 | $75,539 | 73 | $135.0 m | 3 | 723 |
| Labette County | 19,869 | $56,325 | 443 | $1.08 bn | 14 | 645 |
| Lane County | 1,461 | $54,526 | 73 | $173.9 m | 1 | 717 |
| Leavenworth County | 83,123 | $89,218 | 1,332 | $4.05 bn | 82 | 463 |
| Lincoln County | 2,923 | $57,500 | 85 | $148.0 m | 1 | 719 |
| Linn County | 9,767 | $59,069 | 201 | $575.6 m | 11 | 594 |
| Logan County | 2,707 | $75,662 | 103 | $224.8 m | 5 | 1,073 |
| Lyon County | 32,186 | $59,912 | 839 | $1.98 bn | 43 | 847 |
| Marion County | 11,754 | $64,695 | 283 | $520.6 m | 4 | 944 |
| Marshall County | 9,993 | $68,419 | 364 | $704.3 m | 6 | 900 |
| McPherson County | 30,205 | $78,851 | 876 | $2.64 bn | 27 | 898 |
| Meade County | 3,903 | $71,852 | 124 | $318.2 m | 4 | 978 |
| Miami County | 34,938 | $89,000 | 777 | $1.43 bn | 37 | 576 |
| Mitchell County | 5,779 | $64,246 | 237 | $614.5 m | 8 | 702 |
| Montgomery County | 30,940 | $55,697 | 705 | $3.00 bn | 20 | 644 |
| Morris County | 5,340 | $58,686 | 147 | $233.5 m | 2 | 695 |
| Morton County | 2,611 | $66,447 | 66 | $219.4 m | 1 | 730 |
| Nemaha County | 10,160 | $77,348 | 371 | $666.8 m | 13 | 717 |
| Neosho County | 15,656 | $56,618 | 417 | $787.6 m | 12 | 571 |
| Ness County | 2,653 | $68,616 | 122 | $227.1 m | 8 | 1,075 |
| Norton County | 5,359 | $54,050 | 169 | $357.3 m | 14 | 878 |
| Osage County | 15,744 | $74,467 | 261 | $417.5 m | 5 | 706 |
| Osborne County | 3,452 | $63,011 | 134 | $183.8 m | 2 | 893 |
| Ottawa County | 5,819 | $74,018 | 135 | $150.0 m | None recorded | 721 |
| Pawnee County | 6,144 | $63,517 | 140 | $352.8 m | 17 | 754 |
| Phillips County | 4,813 | $62,123 | 211 | $604.5 m | 6 | 886 |
| Pottawatomie County | 26,204 | $92,325 | 703 | $1.59 bn | 18 | 841 |
| Pratt County | 9,127 | $66,022 | 372 | $745.5 m | 6 | 735 |
| Rawlins County | 2,516 | $67,742 | 88 | $179.5 m | 5 | 1,069 |
| Reno County | 61,553 | $60,645 | 1,590 | $3.43 bn | 30 | 1,255 |
| Republic County | 4,646 | $56,833 | 175 | $395.6 m | 9 | 717 |
| Rice County | 9,350 | $63,925 | 265 | $949.4 m | 4 | 726 |
| Riley County | 71,946 | $61,098 | 1,620 | $3.81 bn | 82 | 610 |
| Rooks County | 4,813 | $62,500 | 165 | $230.4 m | 8 | 891 |
| Rush County | 2,947 | $59,970 | 98 | $195.6 m | 5 | 718 |
| Russell County | 6,679 | $62,392 | 246 | $357.0 m | 10 | 886 |
| Saline County | 53,668 | $65,422 | 1,489 | $3.88 bn | 24 | 720 |
| Scott County | 5,027 | $68,839 | 206 | $551.2 m | 1 | 718 |
| Sedgwick County | 528,226 | $69,365 | 12,710 | $41.52 bn | 690 | 998 |
| Seward County | 21,486 | $63,827 | 556 | $1.72 bn | 8 | 639 |
| Shawnee County | 178,025 | $67,104 | 3,959 | $14.58 bn | 169 | 544 |
| Sheridan County | 2,426 | $73,750 | 104 | $224.2 m | 2 | 896 |
| Sherman County | 5,858 | $61,750 | 259 | $404.8 m | 7 | 1,056 |
| Smith County | 3,552 | $59,135 | 126 | $220.8 m | None recorded | 895 |
| Stafford County | 3,978 | $64,226 | 117 | $289.4 m | 2 | 792 |
| Stanton County | 2,038 | $71,700 | 54 | $233.9 m | 6 | 680 |
| Stevens County | 5,162 | $64,178 | 139 | $496.7 m | 10 | 727 |
| Sumner County | 22,353 | $63,951 | 483 | $878.1 m | 11 | 1,182 |
| Thomas County | 7,885 | $71,325 | 332 | $904.7 m | 14 | 1,075 |
| Trego County | 2,777 | $81,528 | 127 | $178.0 m | 3 | 889 |
| Wabaunsee County | 7,009 | $76,908 | 131 | $176.5 m | 3 | 794 |
| Wallace County | 1,417 | $63,207 | 62 | $146.5 m | 1 | 914 |
| Washington County | 5,533 | $65,482 | 199 | $292.8 m | None recorded | 895 |
| Wichita County | 2,091 | $79,063 | 87 | $353.8 m | 1 | 719 |
| Wilson County | 8,505 | $60,677 | 202 | $389.0 m | 6 | 570 |
| Woodson County | 3,109 | $50,326 | 78 | $96.9 m | None recorded | 498 |
| Wyandotte County | 167,654 | $63,631 | 3,141 | $15.52 bn | 156 | 152 |
The register
Every source behind these 105 pages.
| Source | Period covered | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates | 2020-2024 5-year | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024 | Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024 | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2 | CAGDP2, through 2024 | US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain |
| US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet | 2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001 | US EPA, public domain |
| FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status Book | Community Status Book, as retrieved | FEMA OpenFEMA, public domain |
| US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release | FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30 | FOIA release, public domain |
| US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release | FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30 | FOIA release, public domain |
| US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices | TIGER county boundaries | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns | 2023 | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages | 2024 annual averages | US BLS, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey | 2024 annual | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows | 2021 to 2022 filing years | IRS SOI, public domain |