KC is slightly less affluent than St. Louis, but more equitable

• Sabrina Staires
• The OccupyKC movement is still encamped in KC.

While the protests of Occupy KC have been focused on the 1 percent, the number actually looks more like 3.55 percent. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Kansas City is the 106th most affluent metropolitan area in the United States, based on an analysis of 2010 U.S. Census data by the On Numbers blog. The percentage of Kansas City households making more than $200,000 (the number used to determine affluence) is 3.55 percent (27,996 of the 789,000 homes in the city), a ten-thousandth of a percentage point below St. Louis, which came in one place higher with a nearly identical percentage (39,280 homes out of 1,106,719).