While Kansas City continues to expand, attracting thousands of new residents, population growth and decline across the rest of Jackson County has been an extremely mixed bag over the past several years.
The U.S. Census Bureau released its five-year population change data this month, tracking expansion and decay across every town and city in the county. Kansas City itself has slipped one place down the ranking by city size since 2020, the census found. But it continues to grow in population, accruing more than 13,000 new residents in the five years since the last census.
And while towns in Clay, Platte and Johnson Counties have seen steady — if limited — growth, the bureau found, population figures in eastern Jackson County have been somewhat more scattershot…