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Atchison, KS Micro Area

The Atchison, KS micro area is one county in Kansas: Atchison County. About 16,172 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 1.1% fewer than in April 2020.

Atchison County, centralAtchison
Atchison County in Kansas
Population, July 2025
16,172 1.1% fewer than in April 2020
Type
Micropolitan statistical area
County
Atchison County
Land area
431 sq mi (1,117 km²)
Time zone
Central TimeUTC-06:00 in January; UTC-05:00 in July
State
Kansas
Combined statistical area
Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS
CBSA code
11860
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The county in the Atchison, KS micro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Atchison CountyCentral16,172

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of 10,000 to 49,999 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Atchison10,785 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 5 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area2,270,682 people
  2. Lawrence, KS Metro Area120,920 people
  3. St. Joseph, MO-KS Metro Area119,170 people
  4. Warrensburg, MO Micro Area56,670 people
  5. Ottawa, KS Micro Area26,299 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. St. Joseph, MO-KS Metro Area22 mi northeast
  2. Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area44 mi southeast
  3. Topeka, KS Metro Area47 mi southwest

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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