County Profiles

County Profiles, 2017:

Kansas

Missouri

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Miami County, Kansas

Quick Facts

2015 Population: 32,688
Median Household Income: $60,966
Poverty Rate: 9.2%
Unemployment Rate: 4.3%

Key Findings

Miami County, a predominantly rural county on the southwest edge of the Kansas City area, has less access to care than counties in the heart of the region. Access to dental care is particularly challenging, with more than 4,100 residents for every dentist. Other health concerns include an aging population, with a 41.5 percent increase in the number of residents over age 65 since 2000; and higher rates of deaths due to heart disease and cancer than the state average. Poverty rates held steady at 9.3 percent. The county has a median household income that is 13 percent above the U.S. average. The percentage of residents without health insurance dropped from 11.4 percent in 2013 to 9.3 percent in 2014 and 7.3 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: KIC

	Miami Co.	Kansas
Heart disease	220.2	158.0
Cancer	200.5	164.3
Chronic lower resp. diseases	55.4	49.7
Stroke	25.5*	38.5
Alzheimer's disease	25.4*	23.4
Suicide	23.2*	16.3
Kidney disease	14.8*	16.8
Septicemia	12.3*	11.1
Diabetes	11.4*	20.2
Influenza & pneumonia	9.4*	18.9

* Sample size too small to ensure accuracy

Access to Care, 2016

	Ratio of Primary Care Physicians per person — 1: 2,520

	Ratio of Dentists per person — 1: 4,070

	Ratio of Mental Health Providers per person — 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.