Reasons to Choose

Cost of Living

This is affordability in action: In Kansas City, a household earning the median family income of $54,372 is more than $5,000 above the threshold needed to purchase a median-value home of $252,000. Across the state, housing affordability is even greater;… more

Transportation and Infrastructure

Although Missouri has long been recognized as a transportation hub, recent developments in that sector have allowed the state to leverage its central location into an even more competitive advantage. This comes on top of a strong transportation and infrastructure… more

Real-Estate Values

One easy yardstick for measuring Missouri’s real-estate values is the price of a single-family home, which allows ready—and highly favorable—comparisons with markets nationally. In Kansas City, nearly 90 percent of homes on the market are within financial reach of the… more

Education

Education in Missouri includes outstanding services focused in the major metropolitan areas and a surprisingly rich network distributed throughout the state’s more rural areas. Not surprisingly, the eastern part of the state, includes a high concentration of excellent programs—the area… more

Prime Location/Key Communities

 Missouri’s seven major economic development regions have traits unique to each area, but all share some key aspects. The regions include the northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast and central sections of the state, along with the areas surrounding Missouri’s two major… more

Health Care and Community Services

For a state that continues to contain vast rural areas, Missouri has developed a sophisticated health-care and community-services infrastructure that benefits all of its 6 million-plus residents. The major metropolitan areas of St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield have multiple… more

Healthcare and Community Services

KANSAS CITY ENJOYS AN ABUNDANCE, NOT AN EMBARRASSMENT, OF RICHES WITH ITS NETWORK OF MEDICAL FACILITIES, INCLUDING LIFE-SCIENCES RESEARCH HOSPITALS. The most recent hospital-admissions statistics in the Kansas City region showed that the 25 largest institutions admitted more than 300,000… more

Education

THE REGIONAL ECONOMY HUMS TO THE TUNE OF HIGH-PERFORMING INSTITUTIONS. To live and do business in Kansas City is to be part of a bifurcated culture. The intersection of 20th Street and Main, just south of the heart of Downtown,… more

Real Estate Values

WHETHER IT'S YOUR HOME OR YOUR BUSINESS, YOU CAN REAP THE REWARDS OF OWNERSHIP HERE - WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK.  Nine years. That’s how long it took aggregate housing prices in the Kansas City market to climb back up after… more

Cost of Living

KANSAS CITY HAS LONG HELD AN EDGE OVER OTHER METRO REGIONS WITH ITS AFFORDABILITY. RECENT CHANGES HAVE STRENGTHENED THAT KEY ATTRIBUTE. It is a symbol of civic and business pride we call The Kansas City Value Proposition. And it works… more