Most Affluent Kansas Counties

Least Affluent Kansas Counties

Kansas Counties: Mean Household Income

River People

Population source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010-Census.

Land cover source: Mid-America Regional Council.

Land Cover Patterns

The 2012 median household income of census tract 84 in Kansas City, Missouri is $174,000.

The 2012 median household income of census tract 52 in Kansas City, Missouri $10,924.

The land cover in tract 84 looks and breaks down like this:

The land cover in tract 52 looks and breaks down like this:

2013 Land Cover data source: Mid America Regional Council.
2012 Income Estimates: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Reported margin of error for median household income estimates:

• Census Tract 84, Jackson County, MO: $22,565
• Census Tract 52, Jackson County, MO: $5,041

Green Impact Zone – Population

A simplistic web map of population within the Green Impact Zone.

 

Interactive Income Gradient

Maps showing income typically use discrete boundary data like ZIP codes or census tracts to depict variations over an area of interest. But most social phenomena like this are more likely to exhibit a fluid, or continuous, pattern across the landscape.

This interactive map, which is an update to a previous map created by KC Mapping & GIS, is an experiment at creating more realistic models for mapping the social terrain.

Missouri 5th District – % Poverty

Poverty rates within Missouri’s 5th US Congressional District.

Missouri Poverty Patterns

A map showing, in a generalized and relative way, the spatial extent of poverty within Missouri.

This is one of those maps that might mislead the reader. For example, the areas of high poverty within Kansas City and St. Louis look small in comparison to the area of high poverty around Columbia. But, the reader should also consider that the areas within the two largest cities are much more densely populated than most other places in the state. The take away, then, is that this map reflects the spatial extent of relative levels of poverty, not necessarily the density, or volume, of poverty.

Income Gradient

Income gradient and selected points of interest.

Instead of using the contours to show temperature or elevation, here they represent median household income. Where the lines are closer, incomes vary more within and between neighborhoods; where they are further apart, incomes vary less within and between neighborhoods. Darker shaded areas contain higher income households, lighter shaded areas contain lower income households.

Source data for median household income: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2006-2010