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Cass County, Missouri

Quick Facts

2015 Population: 100,781
Median Household Income: $61,584
Poverty Rate: 9.9%
2016 Unemployment Rate: 4.1%

Key Findings

Cass County’s total population grew by more than 18,000 (22.8 percent) from 2000-2015. The county’s older adult population grew more than twice as fast, at 55.9 percent. Within the region, only Platte County had a higher percentage growth rate of those age 65+. The county's poverty rate increased slightly in 2015, to 9.9 percent, compared to 9.6 percent in 2014. Cass County is becoming more diverse, with the percentage of non-white residents nearly doubling since 2000 (from 5.9 percent to 11.2 percent). Growing older adult, minority and low-income populations may strain the county’s health care system. Much of the county is rural, and access to care is more limited than in urban areas. The number of primary care physicians, dentists and mental health providers per person all decreased slightly in 2015 compared to 2014. On a more positive note, the percentage of uninsured residents continues to decrease, standing at 9.7 percent in 2015.

Information presented in this county profile is the most currently available as of September 2017.

County Data

Leading Causes of Death
Age-adjusted rate per 100,000 people, 2015. Source: MICA

	Cass Co.	Missouri
Cancer	159.2	173.0
Heart disease	147.1	197.5
Chronic lower resp. diseases	49.7	52.7
Stroke	37.9	40.6
Kidney disease	23.1	19.9
Suicide	21.4	16.9
Diabetes	17.3	19.6
Alzheimer's disease	16.7	28.6
Influenza & pneumonia	12.1*	17.8
Septicemia	11.8*	11.6

* Sample size too small to ensure accuracy

Access to Care, 2016

	Ratio of Primary Care Physicians per person — 1: 4,390

	Ratio of Dentists per person — 1: 3,185

	Ratio of Mental Health Providers per person — 1: 1,720
	Source: County Health Rankings

Health Indicator Trends

Trends for selected health indicators by county from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's County Health Rankings website.