The northern half of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Clay County is home to Liberty, Gladstone, Smithville, Kearney, Excelsior Springs, and the North Kansas City corridor — and to the highest Kansas cross-border ownership footprint of any county in the NPA catalog. 1,579 Clay County parcels are owned from Kansas mailing addresses.
Clay County data reveals a distinctive cross-border ownership pattern unique among NPA counties — the Missouri/Kansas state line runs directly through the metro, and Clay County sits adjacent to Wyandotte and Johnson counties on the Kansas side. The result is the largest cross-state ownership footprint in our entire catalog.
1828 Swift Avenue, Kansas City: 60 entities, 78 parcels, $82.4M. The largest cluster in Clay County. 60 distinct entity names operating from a single mailing address in the North Kansas City industrial corridor. The high entity-to-parcel ratio (essentially one entity per parcel) is the signature of professional asset structuring — each property held in its own LLC for liability isolation. Combined appraised value places this among the highest concentration-density clusters across the entire KC metro.
244 W Mill Street, Liberty: 34 entities, 384 parcels, $67.1M. The largest local management hub in Clay County by parcel count. A Liberty-based operator running a 384-parcel portfolio through 34 separate entity names. The volume-to-entity ratio (~11 parcels per entity) is consistent with a property management firm aggregating multiple investor-owned LLCs at one operational address.
1,579 Clay County parcels owned from Kansas mailing addresses — the highest cross-state footprint of any NPA county. Kansas mailing addresses control more Clay County property than any other out-of-state jurisdiction (1,579 parcels), followed by Texas (518), California (498), and Georgia (335). The 1,579 KS-owned parcels exceed the next-largest non-MO state by a factor of 3 and are a direct consequence of the Kansas/Missouri metro split — Johnson County, Kansas residents and operators routinely hold rental and investment property on the Missouri side.
1350 N Jesse James Road, Excelsior Springs: 20 entities, 178 parcels, $12.8M. The third-largest cluster in the county and a significant rural-edge concentration outside the immediate KC metro. Excelsior Springs has historically attracted investor activity around its mineral spring district and small-town rental market. The 178 parcels controlled from this single address represent meaningful concentration for a small market.
PO Box 129, Shawnee Mission Kansas: 10 entities, 145 parcels, $42.4M. A 100% out-of-state cluster — every parcel in this group is owned through entities mailing to a Shawnee Mission, Kansas PO Box, with 145 Clay County parcels held under 10 separate LLC names. A clean institutional cross-border footprint that would not surface without parcel-level mailing-address analysis.
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Executive dashboard, geographic treemap, scatter analysis, municipality breakdown across Liberty, Gladstone, Smithville, Kearney, and Excelsior Springs, top 25 clusters by two ranking methods, entity rosters for the top clusters, CSV quick-start guide, full methodology, and legal disclaimer.
16 columns of structured data covering every entity in every cluster. Filter by Clay County municipality, owner state (Kansas vs Missouri vs out-of-region), or distress score for custom analysis. Built from the Clay County GIS parcels feed.
Identify which operators dominate the Liberty, Gladstone, and Northland submarkets. The data is essential for any investor expanding outside Jackson County into the North KC growth corridor.
Cross-reference borrowers against the 1,579 Kansas-owned Clay County parcels. The largest single source of cross-state borrowers in the NPA catalog.
Identify when Clay County buyer or seller entities trace back to Kansas, Texas, or California operators — the four largest non-Missouri owner pools.
Identify the local 1828 Swift Ave, 244 W Mill St, and 1350 N Jesse James Rd operators who anchor Clay County's rental management landscape.
The report is generated from the Clay County GIS parcels_2_view feed published via the county's public ArcGIS REST API. Owner names and mailing addresses are normalized using the same multi-pass methodology applied to all NPA county reports, then clustered by mailing address (3+ distinct entities at one address). The Clay County source feed is a 2020 vintage and does not include deed recording dates or year built, so the ownership tenure and pre-1950 distress signals are not available for this county. For complete methodology details, see the methodology page.
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