Is Kansas's population growing or shrinking?
Refreshed annually
It grew by 12,000 between 2024 and 2025. That’s more than the population of Arkansas City. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. Kansas’s 0.4% annual increase was primarily driven by immigration to the state. In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Kansas’s population grew by 1.9%.
+12K
population change (2024 to 2025)
+0.4%
percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Kansas's population increased in 24 of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2009 and 2010, when it gained 26,100 residents. The state's largest decline during the 21st century occurred between 2021 and 2022 when it lost 932 residents.
Kansas gained 12,000 residents between 2024 and 2025.
Annual population change, 1901–2025
What contributes to population change in Kansas?
A state’s population is influenced by three factors:
- Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 to 2025 natural population change was positive in Kansas, with births exceeding deaths by 5,000.
- Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a state. If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Kansas’s population change from immigration was positive, with about 7,400 more people coming from another country to Kansas than leaving.
- Domestic migration, moving between states: Kansas’s population change from domestic migration was negative, with about 519 more people leaving for another state than moving in.
Between 2024 and 2025, immigration was the primary driver of population growth in Kansas.
Components of population change, 2011–2025
Which counties in Kansas are growing? Which are shrinking?
Among 105 county equivalents, Johnson County had the largest population growth in Kansas, welcoming 6,074 new residents. Ford County lost the most, with a loss of 294 residents. County-level population data is available as of 2025.
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Geary County led Kansas in percent population increase between 2024 and 2025 at 2.5 percent. Edwards County ranked last with a 3 percent decline.
Between 2024 and 2025, Geary County gained 2.5% in population, the largest increase in Kansas.
Population change
How does population change in Kansas compare to other states?
Between 2015 and 2025, Kansas’s population has increased by 1.9%. During that same period, the US population grew by 6.2%. Kansas ranks 37th among states in population growth over that decade.
Kansas ranked 37th in population growth between 2015 and 2025.
Percent change in population
Population change between 2024 and 2025, by county in Kansas
| County | Population change rate | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Geary County, KS | +2.5% |
| 2. | Stafford County, KS | +2.2% |
| 3. | Coffey County, KS | +1.7% |
| 4. | Miami County, KS | +1.2% |
| 5. | Pottawatomie County, KS | +1.2% |
| 6. | Cloud County, KS | +1.2% |
| 7. | Haskell County, KS | +1.2% |
| 8. | Anderson County, KS | +1.1% |
| 9. | Johnson County, KS | +0.96% |
| 10. | Linn County, KS | +0.87% |
Population change between 2015 and 2025, by state
| State | Population change rate | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Idaho | +22% |
| 2. | Utah | +17.9% |
| 3. | Florida | +16.5% |
| 4. | Texas | +15.8% |
| 5. | Nevada | +14.9% |
| 6. | South Carolina | +14.8% |
| 7. | Arizona | +13.7% |
| 8. | North Carolina | +12.4% |
| 9. | Delaware | +12.2% |
| 10. | Washington state | +11.4% |
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