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  The population of Clay county is estimated at 238,762. In 2017 there were 3,021 births and 1,711 deaths in Clay county. Clay county has 47,841 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,915 that are owned free and clear and 25,461 that are renter occupied.


  The good residents of Clay County filed 117,310 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.2% of all Missouri filings and 0.079% of the entire nation. Clay had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,076,654,000 on earned income of $7,472,753,000. Other notable statistics from Clay County were 4,960 unemployment claims which collected a total of $10,859,000 and 32,620 charitable contributions valued at $132,919,000. 37,820 filings from Clay County paid a combined total of $123,089,000 in property taxes and 33,210 filings paid $206,820,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Clay county had 215 religious congregations with an estimated 105,280 members.

31.9% of the Clay population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.


Approximately 46% of Clay County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 3,772 votes.

At $67,666 the median income is 126.5% of the Missouri average. An estimated 4,827 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Clay, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.9%.


Top 15 Industries in Clay County.
Total # EmployedIndustry Job Type
12,953Health care and social assistance
11,592Retail trade
10,152Manufacturing
9,827Accommodation and food services
9,242Professional, scientific, and technical services
7,245Food services and drinking places
6,724Restaurants and other eating places
5,253Hospitals
5,253General medical and surgical hospitals
5,004Transportation and warehousing
4,951Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,898Administrative and support services
4,535Transportation equipment manufacturing
4,297Ambulatory health care services
4,156Wholesale trade


In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.72% in Clay County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 64089, 64118, 64024, 64068 and 64060).

In 2018 14.77% of listings in Clay County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 64060, 64089, 64024, 64118 and 64068) dropped their price.


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