Three of the area’s zip codes are home to 15.9% of the metro’s black population, and the median household income in each is less than $30,000 annually. White households earn nearly twice the median income of black households. Segregation like this can have very discernible consequences. Of all the people a white person comes into contact with in the area, only 5.5% are black, significantly less frequent than the similar figure of 12.8% of contacts across the 50 largest metro areas. White city residents have very little interaction with the city’s black residents. Out of the 166 zip codes that make up the Kansas City metro area, 123 are home to predominantly white residents. ![]() Roughly 765,000 Kansas City residents - or 37.8% of the city’s population - live in a homogeneous zip code, or where at least 80% of residents share the same skin color or ethnicity, the ninth highest proportion in the country. ![]() of population living in segregated areas: 37.8%
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