† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
14 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupKansas City, MO-KSUnited States
German19.2%12.5%
English13.0%9.5%
Irish11.9%9.4%
American4.9%5.3%
Italian3.0%4.8%
Scottish2.0%1.3%
French1.7%1.6%
Polish1.3%2.2%
African American†10.3%9.9%
African0.5%0.5%
Mexican7.6%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.6%1.8%
Guatemalan0.4%0.5%
Honduran0.4%0.3%
Salvadoran0.4%0.7%
Cuban0.2%0.7%
Spanish0.2%—
Asian Indian0.8%1.4%
Chinese0.4%1.3%
Vietnamese0.4%0.6%
Filipino0.3%0.9%
Korean0.2%0.4%
Burmese0.2%—
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Kansas City, MO-KS
United States
Median age
38
39.1
Age 18–24
8.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.9%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Kansas City, MO-KS
United States
Median household income
$85,452
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
39.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Kansas City, MO-KS
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
11.1%
22.3%
Spanish
6.6%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Kansas City, MO-KS
United States
Catholic
11.3%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
19.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
54.6%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.1%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Kansas City, MO-KS
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−1.6%
1896
+13.6%
1900
+7.0%
1904
−11.0%
1908
+6.9%
1912
+34.0%
1916
+13.8%
1920
−4.1%
1924
−11.8%
1928
−17.3%
1932
+29.3%
1936
+32.6%
1940
+9.4%
1944
+3.4%
1948
+18.5%
1952
−4.4%
1956
−3.0%
1960
−0.9%
1964
+25.8%
1968
−1.3%
1972
−27.8%
1976
+1.8%
1980
−3.9%
1984
−14.9%
1988
+2.0%
1992
+9.9%
1996
+4.5%
2000
+0.9%
2004
−3.3%
2008
+5.6%
2012
−2.3%
2016
−1.6%
2020
+4.7%
2024
+2.6%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
50.5%Harris541,664
47.9%Trump513,617
1.7%
D+2.6
R+2.1
D+4.1
1,073,160
D
51.3%Biden559,895
46.6%Trump508,524
2.2%
D+4.7
D+6.3
D+0.3
1,092,045
R
45.4%Clinton436,284
47.0%Trump451,531
7.5%
R+1.6
D+0.7
R+3.7
960,210
R
47.8%Obama447,036
50.1%Romney468,710
2.1%
R+2.3
R+7.9
R+6.2
935,325
D
52.1%Obama515,075
46.6%McCain459,981
1.3%
D+5.6
D+8.9
R+1.7
987,703
R
47.9%Kerry434,368
51.3%Bush464,493
0.8%
R+3.3
R+4.2
R+0.9
906,060
D
48.9%Gore377,333
48.0%Bush370,249
3.1%
D+0.9
R+3.6
D+0.4
771,543
D
47.6%Clinton330,662
43.1%Dole299,307
9.4%
D+4.5
R+5.4
R+4.0
695,202
D
42.2%Clinton322,484
32.3%Bush246,506
25.6%
D+9.9
D+7.9
D+4.4
764,287
D
50.7%Dukakis326,727
48.7%Bush313,829
0.6%
D+2.0
D+16.9
D+9.7
644,270
R
42.4%Mondale273,607
57.3%Reagan370,010
0.3%
R+14.9
R+11.1
D+3.3
645,410
R
44.7%Carter270,299
48.6%Reagan293,784
6.7%
R+3.9
R+5.7
D+5.9
604,702
D
50.0%Carter282,944
48.2%Ford272,793
1.9%
D+1.8
D+29.6
R+0.3
566,388
R
35.6%McGovern188,657
63.4%Nixon335,716
1.0%
R+27.8
R+26.5
R+4.6
529,746
R
43.0%Humphrey224,020
44.3%Nixon230,736
12.7%
R+1.3
R+27.1
R+0.6
520,676
D
62.7%Johnson310,387
36.9%Goldwater182,768
0.4%
D+25.8
D+26.7
D+3.2
494,929
R
49.5%Kennedy265,648
50.4%Nixon270,667
0.1%
R+0.9
D+2.0
R+1.1
537,106
R
48.5%Stevenson240,007
51.5%Eisenhower254,649
0.1%
R+3.0
D+1.5
D+12.4
494,944
R
47.7%Stevenson240,812
52.1%Eisenhower263,069
0.2%
R+4.4
R+22.9
D+6.3
504,849
D
59.0%Truman243,882
40.4%Dewey167,288
0.6%
D+18.5
D+15.1
D+14.0
413,618
D
51.6%Roosevelt198,314
48.2%Dewey185,185
0.2%
D+3.4
R+6.0
R+4.1
384,380
D
54.6%Roosevelt237,305
45.2%Willkie196,434
0.2%
D+9.4
R+23.2
R+0.5
434,686
D
66.1%Roosevelt321,194
33.5%Landon162,851
0.4%
D+32.6
D+3.3
D+8.3
485,878
D
64.3%Roosevelt276,586
35.0%Hoover150,520
0.7%
D+29.3
D+46.6
D+11.5
429,903
R
41.2%Smith158,292
58.5%Hoover224,546
0.3%
R+17.3
R+5.5
D+0.2
383,913
R
40.7%Davis129,700
52.4%Coolidge167,324
6.9%
R+11.8
R+7.7
D+13.4
319,017
R
47.4%Cox137,397
51.4%Harding149,243
1.2%
R+4.1
R+17.9
D+22.1
290,122
D
55.6%Wilson104,070
41.8%Hughes78,210
2.7%
D+13.8
R+20.2
D+10.7
187,301
D
49.5%Wilson70,116
15.6%Taft22,054
34.9%
D+34.0
D+27.1
D+14.4
141,519
D
52.2%Bryan73,428
45.3%Taft63,785
2.5%
D+6.9
D+17.9
D+16.4
140,708
R
42.1%Parker51,704
53.1%Roosevelt65,227
4.7%
R+11.0
R+18.0
D+8.7
122,757
D
52.3%Bryan66,123
45.4%McKinley57,317
2.3%
D+7.0
R+6.6
D+14.5
126,386
D
56.3%Bryan69,331
42.7%McKinley52,578
1.1%
D+13.6
D+15.2
D+19.7
123,215
R
38.2%Cleveland38,299
39.8%Harrison39,951
22.0%
R+1.6
—
R+3.3
100,267
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2025R+6.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+2.6
Kansas City, MO-KS registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 9.2-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Kansas City, MO-KS
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2025 (partial)
647,650
206,257
248,965
182,495
9,933
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+5,170 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +36,428 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Kansas City, MO-KS in Kansas City, MO-KS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,726
2012
−1,033
2013
+1,827
2014
+1,361
2015
+1,629
2016
+6,849
2017
+8,513
2018
+5,211
2019
+2,437
2021
+1,284
2022
−1,426
2023
+2,861
2024
+4,471
2025
+5,170
The Kansas City, MO-KS metropolitan area has a presidential record spanning the 1892 through 2024 elections. Across that period its margin moved from D+34 in 1912, the strongest Democratic result in the record, to R+28 in 1972, the strongest Republican result. In 2024 the area's margin was D+3. The distance between the 1912 peak and the 1972 peak marks the full breadth of the shift documented in the record.
Kansas City, MO-KS is composed of 14 constituent counties, with Ray County, Jackson County, and Bates County among the largest. The area had a population of 2,218,142 in the 2024 ACS five-year estimate. Its median age was 38.0 in the same estimate. The presidential margins reported here are aggregated across all constituent counties and describe the area total rather than any single community.
The arc runs from a D+34 high in 1912 to an R+28 high in 1972, the two extremes in the 1892 through 2024 record. The most recent figure, D+3 in 2024, places the area near the center of that range. Measured across the full presidential record, the area moved from its strongest Democratic margin to its strongest Republican margin and then to a narrow Democratic result in the latest contest.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 27.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.6 points.
A population of 2,218,142, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,452 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN and Columbus, OH.
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How did Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri vote in 2024?
In 2024, Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri voted Democratic by 2.6 points (D+2.6), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,073,160 votes cast, 541,664 went Democratic and 513,617 went Republican.
When did Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri has a population of 2,218,142 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Median household income in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri is $85,452 — above the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $74,275.
What is the political history of Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
