County adds 157 residents from 2023 to 2024: report

Jackson County and all nine of its incorporated cities are growing, according to data released recently by the Kansas Division of Budget — and although six of the county’s cities added only one person from 2023 to 2024, it’s enough to show an upward trend in the over the year.

The Kansas Division of Budget issued its annual report on popula­tions of the state’s counties, cities and townships this past July 1. Data in the report is used to de­termine the amount of state gov­ernmental assistance provided an­nually to local government units, it has been reported.

According to the most recent data, the county added 157 resi­dents in all over the reporting peri­od, growing from 13,368 residents in 2023 to 13,525 in 2024, an in­crease of 1.2 percent. That’s also an increase of 2.2 percent, or 293 residents, over the county’s popu­lation of 13,232 as listed in the 2020 federal census.

Holton saw a sizable increase in terms of numbers in its population, according to the state’s annual re­port, which listed the city’s popula­tion of 3,382 in 2023 grow­ing by 40 residents to 3,422 in 2024, up 1.2 percent. Last year’s report saw the city’s 2023 popula­tion growing by nine, or 0.3 per­cent.

The largest population increase, percentage-wise, in the county from 2023 to 2024 occurred in Denison, where a 2.1-percent popu­lation growth was noted as the city grew by three residents from 144 in 2023 to 147 in 2024.

Of the remaining cities in the county, only Mayetta grew by more than one from year to year, as the city’s population of 355 in 2023 grew to 359 in 2024, an in­crease of four residents, or 1.1 per­cent. Circleville, Delia, Hoyt, Netawaka, Soldier and Whiting each added one resident from year to year, according to the report.

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