Employment & Economic Stats.

Below you will find a snap shot of statistical information about Cowley County.  If you are in search and certain information not found on our site, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.
Cowley County Profile
Under the KU Entrepreneurship Works for Kansas Initiative, IPSR produces summary reports (formerly known as KCCED County Profiles) containing population, socio-economic, and employment data for each Kansas county. To access profiles for any county including Cowley County visit: http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/kcced/profiles/.

Kansas Statistical Abstract-46th Edition Online
The Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR) at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce that the 46th Edition of the Kansas Statistical Abstract (KSA) is now available. The abstract is available EXCLUSIVELY online as a PDF file with individual pages available in Microsoft Excel and PDF. For more information and access to the data, please visit http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/ksah/.

Employment data comes from the Kansas Department of Labor

2024 Regional Unemployment Percentages

County J F M A M J J A S O N D
Butler 2.6 3.2 3.1
Chautauqua 2.6 3.5 3.8
Cowley 2.9 3.4 3.4
Elk 2.8 3.1 2.9
Greenwood 2.5 3.0 2.9
Sedgwick 3.2 3.5 3.3
Sumner 2.6 3.2 3.0
State of Kansas 2.6 2.7 2.7

2023 Regional Unemployment Percentages

County J F M A M J J A S O N D
Butler 3.1 3.2 3.1 2.8 2.7 3.1 3.3 3.2 2.8 3.1 2.1 2.1
Chautauqua 3.2 3.7 3.0 2.8 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.7 3.0 3.4 2.3 2.0
Cowley 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.4 3.8 2.8 2.3
Elk 2.8 3.0 2.6 2.5 2.3 2.5 3.4 3.5 2.6 3.0 2.0 1.8
Greenwood 3.0 3.3 3.2 2.9 2.9 3.2 3.2 3.5 3.0 3.1 2.3 2.1
Sedgwick 3.3 3.5 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.4 3.5 3.7 3.1 3.5 2.6 2.4
Sumner 3.0 3.2 2.9 2.7 2.7 3.3 3.4 3.5 2.8 3.3 2.2 2.1
State of Kansas 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.8

Current Sales Tax Rate

State of Kansas – 6.5%
Cowley County – 6.5%

Arkansas City – 8.5%
Burden – 7.50%

Udall – 7.50%
Winfield – 8.50%

Local Sales Tax Distribution

2024

Cowley Arkansas City Winfield Burden Udall
January 0 319,808 266,717 3,164 4,084
February 0 347,866 351,091 2,640 8,068
March 0 306,740 259,721 2,105 4,687
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2023

Cowley Arkansas City Winfield
January 0 306,075 299,689
February 0 380,751 392,290
March 0 332,566 308,708
April 0 316,089 310,445
May 0 352,846 336,479
June 0 315,222 305,044
July 0 321,424 303,997
August 0 346,455 308,931
September 0 324,938 276,759
October 0 332,775 323,242
November 0 332,521 338,918
December 0 309,984 305,872