66111Kansas City, Kansas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 66111.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 40% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5253rd of 6,210 ZIP areas measured36
Schools2330th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured50
GrowthTop 32% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured61
Housing affordabilityTop 16% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured97
Climate4202nd of 6,789 ZIP areas measured66
Physical resilienceTop 31% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured73
AccessTop 47% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured93
Economic stability5078th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured44
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.8% and the Opportunity signal places 66111 in the bottom 15%.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 19% of median household income and the median home is 2.5 times it.

A major airport is 15 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
9,996
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$65,972
Bottom 40% nationally
Density
431/sq mi
23.2 sq mi of land
Median age
39.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Kansas City
Kansas
Metro area
Kansas City, MO-KS
Nearest major airport
MCI
15 mi · Kansas City Intl
Median home value
$162,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.8% is lower than 35% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 2.1% over the past year, to 74,374 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,117$65,972Bottom 40%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,008$30,376Bottom 28%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate17.6%Top 24%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.0 minBottom 16%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher18.8%Bottom 36%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment74,374Top 41%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.9%Top 38%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.1%Bottom 15%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force78,095Top 41%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation62.7%Top 42%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,550Bottom 46%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$50,820Top 49%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.1%Bottom 42%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.8%Top 35%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202467k59k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $65,972 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Kansas City, MO-KS
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers31,080$90,490
Registered Nurses29,650$83,040
Retail Salespersons26,110$34,320
Cashiers24,160$30,700
Stockers and Order Fillers23,580$36,850
Customer Service Representatives22,240$44,350

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Kansas City, KS, the city containing this ZIP code.

23% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 38% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.4 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
22.5%
Bottom 37% in Kansas
Reading proficiency
38.0%
Top 49% in Kansas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Edwardsville ElemBonner Springs33112.331%44%
Stony Point SouthKansas City24715.411%31%

73.9% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Kansas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 7% below the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,058 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.5 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
93.2

Prices here run about 7% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
19.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,058
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$162,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index93.2Bottom 25%of 6,0712023
Home price to income2.46Bottom 29%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.9%Bottom 40%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2724,117Top 31%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$92$1,058Top 46%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,815$162,600Bottom 32%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.2%Top 39%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.3%Bottom 43%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
61/ 100
Top 32% of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 3.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
517
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.3
Top 45% nationally
Year over year
+30%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
57.4%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Kansas City, KS, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.1 inches, including 11.0 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 46, in the Good band, and about 3 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN AP, 10.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index71.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation38.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall11.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index46.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing50°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
46
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
71
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

73 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, heat wave and strong wind.

Strong windModerate
Winter weatherModerate
Heat waveModerate
TornadoElevated
HailElevated

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, ice storm, lightning, inland flooding, landslide, earthquake, wildfire, drought.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Wyandotte County records 19.4 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 31.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 27.8 per 100,000 residents in Wyandotte County.

Homicide
19.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
31.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
27.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Wyandotte County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 66111 rather than 66111 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 15 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Kansas City IntlMCI15 mi10,801 ft
Topeka RgnlFOE48 mi12,803 ft
Rosecrans MemlSTJ48 mi8,061 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

66111 vs Kansas City

How this ZIP area compares with Kansas City as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

66111
Kansas City
Median household income
$65,972
vs
$62,401
Per capita income
$30,376
vs
$29,317
Population density
431/sq mi
vs
1,244/sq mi
Median home value
$162,600
vs
$167,400
Median gross rent
$1,058
vs
$1,123
Homeownership rate
74.9%
vs
60.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
18.8%
vs
20.8%
Poverty rate
17.6%
vs
16.0%
Median age
39.9
vs
33.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.