Nairobi hosts a third of the fast-growing middle class

Middle class apartments. The private sector provides 80 per cent of the group. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU

Kenya’s middle class mainly lives in large cities with Nairobi taking the lion’s share of the population at 30.5 per cent, a new study shows.

The study of the income class by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Kenya says Mombasa is second at 11.1 per cent and Kisumu third at 3.1 per cent.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.