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Greater Kansas City Profile

Home to 2.5 million people, Kansas City is a bi-state region including the Kansas City, MO-KS, Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS metropolitan areas, as well as adjacent non-metro counties that include the cities of Warrensburg and Chillicothe, MO, and Atchison, KS.

In Greater Kansas City, you'll find:

• One of the fastest growing major job markets in the Midwest
• Lower business and lifestyle costs than most major metros
• A well-educated, extremely productive workforce
• The most geographically-central major metro in the country

Kansas City's major corporate players with headquarters in the Kansas City area include:

Major Corporate Headquarters in KC

AMC Entertainment American Century BATS Trading Black & Veatch Burns & McDonnell Cerner Corporation Collective Brands Commerce Bank DeBruce Grain DST Systems Garmin International

Great Plains Energy H&R Block Hallmark Cards Hill's Pet Nutrition JE Dunn Seaboard Corporation Sprint UMB Financial Westar Energy YRC Worldwide

Kansas City's combination of big-city business amenities and small-market ease of living have made the metro a magnet for investment. Recent announcements to either locate significant new operations or expand existing operations have been made by:

Recent New & Expanded Operations in KC

Abaxis Argenta Bimbo Bakeries CEVA Biomune Client Services, Inc. Comprehensive Logistics, Inc. Dex One Corporation Flex-N-Gate Frontier Airlines General Motors Jet Midwest

KeyBank Mars Chocolate N.A. MWI Veterinary Supply Netsmart Technologies, Inc. OptumRx Perceptive Software Plastikon Target USDA Van-Rob, Inc. Zumiez, Inc.

 

DEFINING THE GREATER KC METRO AREA

Kansas City is a Missouri/Kansas bi-state metropolitan area. All statistical references made to Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) include the counties of Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The greater Kansas City area also includes the adjoining Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS MSAs, as well as the Atchison, KS, Chillicothe, MO, Ottawa, KS, and Warrensburg, MO areas.