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Cities in Kansas by employed residents

Wichita, KS had the highest employed residents of 18 cities in 2022, at 194,204. Junction City, KS had the lowest, at 9,603. The median was 27,038. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest194,204Wichita, KS
Lowest9,603Junction City, KS
Median27,03818 cities

All cities, 2022

Wichita, KS: 194,204 personsWichita, KS194,204Overland Park, KS: 112,480 personsOverland Park, KS112,480Olathe, KS: 79,268 personsOlathe, KS79,268Kansas City, KS: 71,952 personsKansas City, KS71,952Topeka, KS: 60,433 personsTopeka, KS60,433Lawrence, KS: 54,782 personsLawrence, KS54,782Shawnee, KS: 38,537 personsShawnee, KS38,537Lenexa, KS: 33,783 personsLenexa, KS33,783Manhattan, KS: 30,052 personsManhattan, KS30,052Salina, KS: 24,023 personsSalina, KS24,023Hutchinson, KS: 18,211 personsHutchinson, KS18,211Leawood, KS: 16,843 personsLeawood, KS16,843Garden City, KS: 14,734 personsGarden City, KS14,734Dodge City, KS: 13,971 personsDodge City, KS13,971Leavenworth, KS: 13,875 personsLeavenworth, KS13,875Emporia, KS: 13,301 personsEmporia, KS13,301Derby, KS: 12,359 personsDerby, KS12,359Junction City, KS: 9,603 personsJunction City, KS9,603Wichita, KS: 194,204 personsWichita, KS194,204Overland Park, KS: 112,480 personsOverland Park, KS112,480Olathe, KS: 79,268 personsOlathe, KS79,268Kansas City, KS: 71,952 personsKansas City, KS71,952Topeka, KS: 60,433 personsTopeka, KS60,433Lawrence, KS: 54,782 personsLawrence, KS54,782Shawnee, KS: 38,537 personsShawnee, KS38,537Lenexa, KS: 33,783 personsLenexa, KS33,783Manhattan, KS: 30,052 personsManhattan, KS30,052Salina, KS: 24,023 personsSalina, KS24,023Hutchinson, KS: 18,211 personsHutchinson, KS18,211Leawood, KS: 16,843 personsLeawood, KS16,843Garden City, KS: 14,734 personsGarden City, KS14,734Dodge City, KS: 13,971 personsDodge City, KS13,971Leavenworth, KS: 13,875 personsLeavenworth, KS13,875Emporia, KS: 13,301 personsEmporia, KS13,301Derby, KS: 12,359 personsDerby, KS12,359Junction City, KS: 9,603 personsJunction City, KS9,603
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2022
persons		Change on 2021
1Wichita, KS194,204+1.4%
2Overland Park, KS112,480+2.2%
3Olathe, KS79,268+2.8%
4Kansas City, KS71,952+0.7%
5Topeka, KS60,433+0.7%
6Lawrence, KS54,782+2.2%
7Shawnee, KS38,537+3.6%
8Lenexa, KS33,783+1.5%
9Manhattan, KS30,052+0.8%
10Salina, KS24,023+3.2%
11Hutchinson, KS18,211-1%
12Leawood, KS16,843+1.1%
13Garden City, KS14,734+1.4%
14Dodge City, KS13,971+1.2%
15Leavenworth, KS13,875+1.1%
16Emporia, KS13,301+1.8%
17Derby, KS12,359+2.1%
18Junction City, KS9,6030%

Other periods

About this ranking

Residents who did any work for pay or profit in the reference week, or were temporarily absent from a job, annual average.

More on how it is measured
  • People aged 16 and over by place of residence, from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Active-duty military personnel and people living in institutions are excluded.

United States cities only for now. Counts people where they live, whatever the place of work, and someone with two jobs counts once. BLS estimates cities by splitting county estimates with Census Bureau employment and population data and unemployment insurance claims, so city figures are less precise than state ones. BLS publishes cities of 25,000 or more, and smaller cities in New England.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the cities are compared on one definition. 1 cities with data in other periods have no value for 2022 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU20-24. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average (Cities in Kansas by employed residents, 2022) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU20-24

MLA 9

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Kansas by employed residents, 2022. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30 Sept. 2026, https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU20-24. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/kansas-cities?period=2022. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Cities in Kansas by employed residents, 2022. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU20-24. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/kansas-cities?period=2022.

Harvard

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Kansas by employed residents, 2022 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU20-24, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/kansas-cities?period=2022 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Questions

Which city has the highest employed residents?

Wichita, KS, with 194,204 in 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest employed residents?

Junction City, KS, with 9,603 in 2022.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 cities have no value for 2022 and are not ranked.

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