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Kansas population 2026
Kansas has 2,977,220 people on the latest official figure, for 1 July 2025, 11,968 more than a year earlier (+0.40%). It is 34th of the US’s 50 states and DC by population, home to 0.9% of the US’s people.
If last year’s change continues: about 3 million by 1 July 2026. That is our arithmetic, not an official figure.
Kansas in numbers
- Population
- 3 million 1 July 2025
- Change in a year
- +0.40% +11,968 people
- Change since 2020
- +1.32% from 2.9 million
- Share of the US
- 0.9% 34th of 50 states and DC
- Population density
- 14per km² 211,754 km²
- Births in the year
- 34 thousand deaths: 29 thousand
- International migration
- +7 thousand net arrivals from abroad
- Moves within the US
- −519 more people left than moved in
In the latest year births outnumbered deaths by 4,951, 7,440 more people arrived from abroad than left, and 519 more people moved to the rest of the US than moved in.
That is about as many people as Moldova (3 million).
Population of Kansas by year
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| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,858,266 |
| 2011 | 2,869,677 |
| 2012 | 2,886,024 |
| 2013 | 2,894,306 |
| 2014 | 2,901,861 |
| 2015 | 2,910,717 |
| 2016 | 2,912,977 |
| 2017 | 2,910,892 |
| 2018 | 2,912,748 |
| 2019 | 2,912,635 |
| 2020 | 2,938,274 |
| 2021 | 2,938,966 |
| 2022 | 2,938,034 |
| 2023 | 2,949,749 |
| 2024 | 2,965,252 |
| 2025 | 2,977,220 |
| Year | Population | Change | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,977,220 | +11,968 | +0.40% |
| 2024 | 2,965,252 | +15,503 | +0.53% |
| 2023 | 2,949,749 | +11,715 | +0.40% |
| 2022 | 2,938,034 | −932 | −0.03% |
| 2021 | 2,938,966 | +692 | +0.02% |
| 2020 | 2,938,274 | +25,639 | +0.88% |
| 2019 | 2,912,635 | −113 | −0.00% |
| 2018 | 2,912,748 | +1,856 | +0.06% |
| 2017 | 2,910,892 | −2,085 | −0.07% |
| 2016 | 2,912,977 | +2,260 | +0.08% |
| 2015 | 2,910,717 | +8,856 | +0.31% |
| 2014 | 2,901,861 | +7,555 | +0.26% |
| 2013 | 2,894,306 | +8,282 | +0.29% |
| 2012 | 2,886,024 | +16,347 | +0.57% |
| 2011 | 2,869,677 | +11,411 | +0.40% |
2010–2019 are Vintage 2020 estimates and 2020–2025 are Vintage 2025, so the step between 2019 and 2020 is partly a change of base.
Kansas among the US’s states
Full ranking →| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 39,355,309 | −0.02% | 11.5% | 98 |
| 2 | Texas | 31,709,821 | +1.25% | 9.3% | 47 |
| 3 | Florida | 23,462,518 | +0.84% | 6.9% | 169 |
| 4 | New York State | 20,002,427 | +0.01% | 5.9% | 164 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 13,059,432 | +0.10% | 3.8% | 113 |
| 6 | Illinois | 12,719,141 | +0.13% | 3.7% | 89 |
| 7 | Ohio | 11,900,510 | +0.34% | 3.5% | 113 |
| 8 | Georgia (US State) | 11,302,748 | +0.88% | 3.3% | 76 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 11,197,968 | +1.32% | 3.3% | 89 |
| 10 | Michigan | 10,127,884 | +0.28% | 3.0% | 69 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 9,548,215 | +0.44% | 2.8% | 501 |
| 12 | Virginia | 8,880,107 | +0.69% | 2.6% | 87 |
| 13 | Washington State | 8,001,020 | +0.92% | 2.3% | 47 |
| 14 | Arizona | 7,623,818 | +0.89% | 2.2% | 26 |
| 15 | Tennessee | 7,315,076 | +0.88% | 2.1% | 69 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 7,154,084 | +0.22% | 2.1% | 354 |
| 17 | Indiana | 6,973,333 | +0.56% | 2.0% | 75 |
| 18 | Missouri | 6,270,541 | +0.43% | 1.8% | 35 |
| 19 | Maryland | 6,265,347 | +0.32% | 1.8% | 249 |
| 20 | Colorado | 6,012,561 | +0.40% | 1.8% | 22 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 5,972,787 | +0.26% | 1.7% | 43 |
| 22 | Minnesota | 5,830,405 | +0.57% | 1.7% | 28 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 5,570,274 | +1.46% | 1.6% | 72 |
| 24 | Alabama | 5,193,088 | +0.58% | 1.5% | 40 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 4,618,189 | +0.07% | 1.4% | 41 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 4,606,864 | +0.50% | 1.3% | 45 |
| 27 | Oregon | 4,273,586 | +0.19% | 1.3% | 17 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 4,123,288 | +0.62% | 1.2% | 23 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 3,688,496 | +0.38% | 1.1% | 294 |
| 30 | Utah | 3,538,904 | +1.02% | 1.0% | 17 |
| 31 | Nevada | 3,282,188 | +0.88% | 1.0% | 12 |
| 32 | Iowa | 3,238,387 | +0.25% | 0.9% | 22 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 3,114,791 | +0.60% | 0.9% | 23 |
| 34 | Kansas | 2,977,220 | +0.40% | 0.9% | 14 |
| 35 | Mississippi | 2,954,160 | +0.14% | 0.9% | 24 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 2,125,498 | −0.06% | 0.6% | 7 |
| 37 | Idaho | 2,029,733 | +1.44% | 0.6% | 10 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 2,018,006 | +0.62% | 0.6% | 10 |
| 39 | West Virginia | 1,766,147 | −0.07% | 0.5% | 28 |
| 40 | Hawaii | 1,432,820 | −0.15% | 0.4% | 86 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 1,415,342 | +0.48% | 0.4% | 61 |
| 42 | Maine | 1,414,874 | +0.46% | 0.4% | 18 |
| 43 | Montana | 1,144,694 | +0.63% | 0.3% | 3 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 1,114,521 | +0.37% | 0.3% | 416 |
| 45 | Delaware | 1,059,952 | +0.94% | 0.3% | 210 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 935,094 | +0.86% | 0.3% | 5 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 799,358 | +0.75% | 0.2% | 5 |
| 48 | Alaska | 737,270 | +0.10% | 0.2% | 1 |
| 49 | District of Columbia | 693,645 | +0.34% | 0.2% | 4,381 |
| 50 | Vermont | 644,663 | −0.29% | 0.2% | 27 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 588,753 | +0.35% | 0.2% | 2 |
Largest cities in Kansas
City proper, not the wider metro area; latest figure in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), so years differ.
- Wichita396,119
- Overland Park186,515
- Kansas City152,933
- Olathe134,305
- Topeka125,963
- Lawrence93,917
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Source and method
US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. US government work, public domain. Land area, US Census Bureau Gazetteer. The Census Bureau publishes new state estimates each December. Ranks, shares and changes are our arithmetic on the published figures. National figures can differ from the UN’s projection for the US, which uses a different method. The 2026 figure above carries last year’s change forward; it does not come from the source.
Cite this page: Kansas population, US Census Bureau, 1 July 2025. GlobeMetrics, https://globemetrics.org/world-population/united-states/kansas/
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