Kansas Counties

Complete list of all 105 counties in Kansas with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties

105

Population

2,947,026

Area

81,760 sq mi

Capital

Topeka

Time Zone

Central (CT)

Labeled outline map of Kansas counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

All 105 Kansas counties

County	County Seat	Population ▼	Area	Median Income	Cities
Johnson	—	611,320	473 mi²	$116,709	12
Sedgwick	—	520,607	998 mi²	$73,692	17
Shawnee	—	178,325	544 mi²	$70,938	8
Wyandotte	—	159,881	152 mi²	$64,842	2
Douglas	—	120,748	456 mi²	$73,627	4
Leavenworth	—	89,552	463 mi²	$90,799	8
Riley	—	85,670	610 mi²	$64,623	6
Butler	—	68,780	1,430 mi²	$83,328	16
Reno	—	61,001	1,255 mi²	$62,159	13
Saline	—	53,429	720 mi²	$65,801	6
Miami	—	42,812	576 mi²	$97,615	7
Crawford	—	39,692	590 mi²	$53,149	13
Finney	—	37,808	1,302 mi²	$73,923	3
Harvey	—	35,765	540 mi²	$73,211	7
Cowley	—	34,055	1,126 mi²	$58,263	9

How many counties does Kansas have?

Kansas has 105 counties covering 81,760 square miles and roughly 2,947,026 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1861 as the 34th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.

The largest county by land area is Butler County at 1,430 square miles, home to about 68,780 residents. The most populous is Johnson County with approximately 611,320 residents — a density of about 1,292 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Greeley County has only about 1,302 residents.

Kansas’s capital is Topeka, while the largest city is Wichita — a common pattern in the United States, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Kansas’s county boundaries from our blank map of Kansas page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Kansas county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Kansas address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Kansas specifically: the 100-mile radius around Topeka measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Kansas ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Kansas’s 105 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Kansas has 105 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1861 as the 34th state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.

Butler County is the largest by land area at 1,430 square miles, with about 68,780 residents.

Johnson County is the most populous, with approximately 611,320 residents over 473 square miles.

Greeley County has the smallest population at about 1,302 residents.

Topeka is the state capital. The largest city is Wichita — a common pattern in the US, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.

Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.

Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.

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