Kansas
Kansas: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Kansas at a glance
Rolled up from the 13 regions inside Kansas on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads Kansas, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-09 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
- Population
- 2,977,220 people (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 241,300 USD millions (nominal, annual) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3.8 % of labor force (BLS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 77,800 USD (Census Bureau, via USAFacts) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 67.5 % of households (Census Bureau) (2025) ↗
- Real GDP (chained dollars)
- 185,100 USD millions (real, chained, annual; BEA via USAFacts) (2025) ↗
- Personal income per person
- 69,510 USD (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 46,700 USD average debt per adult with a credit score (mortgages, student loans, cards, auto) (2025) ↗
Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language other than English (any) ↗ | 353,400 people | people age 5+ speaking a language other than English at home (count, ACS; source describes it as about one in 8 Kansans) | 2024 |
| Spanish ↗ | 66.5% | % of people age 5+ who speak a non-English language at home (ACS) | 2024 |
| English ↗ | official status (official language of Kansas) | 2025 |
Largest companies in Kansas
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koch, Inc. (Wichita; private) ↗ | revenue | 125 USD billions | 2021 |
| Seaboard Corporation (Merriam) ↗ | revenue | 9.75 USD billions | 2025 |
| Garmin (Olathe operations HQ; legal domicile Schaffhausen, Switzerland) ↗ | revenue | 7.25 USD billions | 2025 |
| Black & Veatch (Overland Park; employee-owned) ↗ | revenue | 5.1 USD billions | 2025 |
| Euronet Worldwide (Leawood) ↗ | revenue | 4.24 USD billions | 2025 |
| Compass Minerals (Overland Park) ↗ | revenue | 1.49 USD billions | latest fiscal year (year not stated in infobox) |
Worth knowing
- 2026-09Kansas unemployment was 3.8% in September 2026, unchanged from August. ↗
- 2025Kansas's population grew by about 12,000 people between 2024 and 2025, to about 2.98 million (34th-most populous state). ↗
- 2025Kansas homeownership was 67.5% in 2025, 2.3 percentage points above the U.S. rate. ↗
- 2025Spirit AeroSystems, the largest private employer in Kansas in 2016 (12,000 employees in Wichita), has been acquired by Boeing, with part of its assets transferred to Airbus. ↗
- 2025Kansas real GDP reached a record $185.1 billion in 2025, up 2% from 2024. ↗
Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
- Spanish221,988 · 7.6%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages21,015 · 0.7%
- Other Indo-European languages17,803 · 0.6%
- Other and unspecified languages14,355 · 0.5%
- Vietnamese12,542 · 0.4%
- German or other West Germanic languages11,882 · 0.4%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)11,278 · 0.4%
- Arabic6,225 · 0.2%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun5,178 · 0.2%
Largest places in Kansas
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Kansas City (KC), Missouri full508,090
- 2.Wichita, Kansas full397,532
- 3.Mission-Overland Park, Kansas full197,238
- 4.Topeka, Kansas full126,587
- 5.Lawrence, Kansas full94,934
- 6.Manhattan, KS full53,951
- 7.Salina, Kansas full46,889
- 8.Hutchinson, Kansas full40,006
- 9.Dodge City, Kansas full27,788
- 10.Hays, Kansas full21,116
- 11.Pittsburg, Kansas20,646
- 12.Liberal, Kansas full18,743
- 13.Greensburg, Kansas740
Inside Kansas
13 regions have Kansas as their parent.
Companies based in Kansas
77 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Kansas. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Kansas are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.