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Kansas City

Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
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Kansas City Area Economic Summary (PDF)	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Jul 2025
Mountain-Plains - Consumer Prices	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Sep 2014
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Aug 2025
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Mountain Plains	Consumer price indexes	Table	Aug 2025
Kansas City Area Employment — May 2025	Employment	News Release	Jul 2025
Business Employment Dynamics in Kansas – Fourth Quarter 2023	Employment	News Release	Jul 2024
Consumer Price Index, Kansas City – Second Half 2017	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Jan 2018
Occupational Employment and Wages in Kansas City — May 2024	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jun 2025
Kansas City, MO-KS, Metropolitan Area Data Tables	Employment, Pay, Unemployment	Table	Jul 2025
Mountain-Plains CPI Blue Card (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Dec 2017

Kansas City, MO-KS Economy at a Glance:

Kansas City, MO-KS

Data Series	Back Data	Jan 2025	Feb 2025	Mar 2025	Apr 2025	May 2025	June 2025
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		1,196.4	1,198.4	1,198.1	1,205.6	1,204.9	(p)1,227.4
Employment(1)		1,146.4	1,147.1	1,148.3	1,160.0	1,159.5	(p)1,176.4
Unemployment(1)		50.0	51.2	49.8	45.6	45.4	(p)51.0
Unemployment Rate(2)		4.2	4.3	4.2	3.8	3.8	(p)4.2
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		1,126.4	1,133.7	1,139.4	1,146.7	1,156.4	(p)1,160.1
12-month % change		0.3	0.0	0.1	-0.4	0.0	(p)0.1
Mining and Logging(3)		0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	(p)0.9
12-month % change		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	(p)0.0
Construction(3)		57.2	58.2	61.2	63.2	64.9	(p)66.5
12-month % change		4.4	-0.2	1.8	3.3	5.2	(p)5.2
Manufacturing(3)		86.7	89.7	89.6	88.8	91.2	(p)89.9
12-month % change		-2.7	-0.2	0.4	-1.7	0.4	(p)-2.0
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		229.6	227.1	227.4	226.4	226.3	(p)228.1
12-month % change		-0.2	-1.0	-0.9	-1.4	-1.7	(p)-1.3
Information(3)		16.5	16.4	16.3	16.3	16.2	(p)16.2
12-month % change		-5.2	-4.7	-5.8	-5.8	-5.8	(p)-5.8
Financial Activities(3)		79.6	79.9	80.0	79.1	79.6	(p)79.5
12-month % change		2.4	2.7	3.0	1.8	2.6	(p)1.8
Professional and Business Services(3)		179.1	182.7	182.0	182.9	181.1	(p)177.3
12-month % change		-1.5	-0.4	-0.4	-2.3	-2.8	(p)-4.3
Education and Health Services(3)		176.9	178.5	178.2	179.8	180.5	(p)183.4
12-month % change		3.8	3.6	4.0	3.5	3.4	(p)5.8
Leisure and Hospitality(3)		104.9	104.3	107.2	111.1	116.6	(p)121.4
12-month % change		-4.6	-6.3	-6.0	-5.1	-2.8	(p)-0.5
Other Services(3)		41.8	41.2	41.6	42.0	42.8	(p)42.9
12-month % change		3.5	1.0	0.5	1.0	1.9	(p)0.7
Government(3)		153.2	154.8	155.0	156.2	156.3	(p)154.0
12-month % change		2.0	1.2	0.8	0.7	0.6	(p)0.7
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (p) Preliminary

Data Series	Back Data	2nd Half 2016	1st Half 2017	2nd Half 2017
Consumer Price Index: Kansas City MO-KS
CPI-U, All items(1)		225.156	227.427	228.995
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(1)		0.9	2.0	1.7
CPI-W, All items(2)		215.325	217.374	219.305
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(2)		0.7	2.0	1.8
Footnotes (1) All Urban Consumers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted. (2) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.