Migration + Wealth Flow Explorer

State · Census age data

Kansas: where Gen Z adults are moving

Adults born 1997 to 2006 who lived in a different state one year earlier, from the Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey. These are survey estimates of people, shown with their margins of error.

The Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey estimates that about 27,900 adults born 1997 to 2006 moved to Kansas from another state in the prior year, while about 32,800 moved away. The difference, about -4,900, is smaller than the survey's margin of error (plus or minus 6,100), so this data cannot say whether Kansas gained or lost Gen Z adults on net.

The largest single source of Gen Z adults arriving in Kansas was Missouri, at about 6,900 people (plus or minus 2,200), followed by Texas and Colorado.

Moved in from other states

27,889

people · margin of error ±4,133

Moved out to other states

32,751

people · margin of error ±4,829

Net change

-4,862

people · margin of error ±6,107

Too close to call: smaller than the margin of error

States sending Gen Z adults to Kansas

Shaded by estimated people arriving from each state. Hover a state for the estimate and its margin of error.

Top origin states

StatePeople (estimate)Margin of errorConfidence
Missouri6,882±2,239Good
Texas3,197±1,647Good
Colorado2,267±1,198Good
North Carolina1,598±867Good
Oklahoma1,581±855Good
Illinois1,223±548Good
Arizona1,198±1,183Small sample
Nebraska1,197±665Good
Tennessee1,155±1,146Small sample
Washington1,105±1,031Small sample
California908±674Small sample
Arkansas873±652Small sample
Florida817±638Small sample
Pennsylvania781±1,075Too small to rely on
New York447±489Too small to rely on

Showing the 15 largest of 30 states with movers in the survey sample. Smaller flows rest on only a handful of survey responses.

Why this does not match the IRS view

The All households view counts tax-filing households of every age from 2022 to 2023 IRS records. This view counts individual people in one age group from a 2024 Census survey. They measure different things in different years, so the two sets of numbers are shown side by side and never added together. Census age data stops at the state level, so there is no county detail here. More in the guide.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 American Community Survey 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). Estimates and 90% margins of error calculated by Home Grown Property Group from the person file and its replicate weights. Counts people ages 18 and over living in the 50 states or D.C. who lived in a different state or D.C. one year earlier; moves from abroad and Puerto Rico are not included. This product uses Census Bureau data but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.