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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	Feb 2023
Mountain-Plains - Consumer Prices	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Sep 2014
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Apr 2025
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Mountain Plains	Consumer price indexes	Table	Apr 2025
Kansas City Area Employment – November 2022	Employment	News Release	Dec 2022
Business Employment Dynamics in Kansas – Fourth Quarter 2021	Employment	News Release	Aug 2022
Consumer Price Index, Kansas City – Second Half 2017	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Jan 2018
Occupational Employment and Wages in Kansas City — May 2021	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jul 2022
Annual averages U.S., Denver, Kansas City, and St. Louis	Consumer price indexes	Table	Jan 2018
Kansas City, Mo.-Ks., Metropolitan Area Data Tables	Employment, Pay, Unemployment	Table	Feb 2023
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	Sept 2024	Oct 2024	Nov 2024	Dec 2024	Jan 2025	Feb 2025
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		(m)1,187.8	(m)1,186.9	(m)1,181.6	(m)1,182.2	1,196.4	(p)1,199.6
Employment(1)		(m)1,150.0	(m)1,145.8	(m)1,142.4	(m)1,144.2	1,146.4	(p)1,148.3
Unemployment(1)		(m)37.8	(m)41.1	(m)39.2	(m)38.0	50.0	(p)51.3
Unemployment Rate(2)		(m)3.2	(m)3.5	(m)3.3	(m)3.2	4.2	(p)4.3
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		1,153.4	1,156.3	1,156.3	1,159.1	(p)1,124.4
12-month % change		1.3	1.1	0.7	0.9	(p)0.1
Mining and Logging(3)		0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	(p)0.9
12-month % change		0.0	0.0	0.0	-10.0	(p)0.0
Construction(3)		62.4	61.9	61.8	60.0	(p)56.3
12-month % change		4.7	3.2	3.5	1.4	(p)2.7
Manufacturing(3)		91.0	89.7	91.3	91.0	(p)86.9
12-month % change		1.2	3.3	1.9	0.2	(p)-2.5
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		230.5	230.9	233.0	237.4	(p)228.8
12-month % change		0.5	-0.2	-1.2	-0.3	(p)-0.6
Information(3)		17.0	17.1	16.8	16.9	(p)16.4
12-month % change		-3.4	-1.2	-2.3	-1.7	(p)-5.7
Financial Activities(3)		77.6	78.2	78.3	79.9	(p)79.5
12-month % change		0.0	0.0	0.4	2.4	(p)2.3
Professional and Business Services(3)		184.6	185.1	186.2	185.8	(p)179.0
12-month % change		-0.5	-1.6	-0.7	0.0	(p)-1.6
Education and Health Services(3)		175.4	178.2	178.9	177.7	(p)176.8
12-month % change		4.0	4.1	4.0	3.6	(p)3.7
Leisure and Hospitality(3)		118.1	117.0	111.2	111.4	(p)104.7
12-month % change		0.6	0.2	-1.8	-1.4	(p)-4.8
Other Services(3)		42.1	42.3	42.3	42.6	(p)41.9
12-month % change		3.2	3.4	3.4	3.9	(p)3.7
Government(3)		153.8	155.0	155.6	155.5	(p)153.2
12-month % change		1.6	1.6	1.5	1.6	(p)2.0
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. (m) Data are provisional, subject to revision on April 18, 2025. (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.