Leavenworth, Kansas

Area Profile

37,195 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Leavenworth, in Leavenworth County.

66out of 100
Area Score
Top 32% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3006th of 3,904 published cities43
SchoolsTop 22% of 2,668 published cities73
Growth1764th of 2,973 published cities45
Housing affordabilityTop 20% of 4,223 published cities95
Climate2651st of 4,223 published cities66
Physical resilienceTop 28% of 4,182 published cities77
AccessTop 32% of 4,226 published cities96
Economic stability3072nd of 4,226 published cities47
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.9% and the Opportunity signal places Leavenworth in the bottom 23%.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 20% of median household income and the median home is 2.6 times it.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
37,195
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$72,987
Top 42% nationally
Density
1,528/sq mi
24.4 sq mi of land
Median age
35.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Leavenworth County
Kansas
Metro area
Kansas City, MO-KS
Nearest major airport
MCI
11 mi · Kansas City Intl
Median home value
$193,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.9% is lower than 28% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.9% over the past year, to 14,176 employed residents.

33% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 73% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,535$72,987Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,260$35,664Top 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.7%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.0 minBottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher32.6%Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment14,176Bottom 12%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.2%Top 45%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.9%Bottom 19%June 2026
Labor force14,913Bottom 12%June 2026
Labor force participation56.9%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,550Bottom 41%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$50,820Bottom 47%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.3%Top 37%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.9%Top 28%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/064.92.5
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.9% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202473k63k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $72,987 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Kansas City, MO-KS
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers31,080$90,490
Registered Nurses29,650$83,040
Retail Salespersons26,110$34,320
Cashiers24,160$30,700
Stockers and Order Fillers23,580$36,850
Customer Service Representatives22,240$44,350

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

37% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 47% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.2 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
36.9%
Top 33% in Kansas
Reading proficiency
47.0%
Top 15% in Kansas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Leavenworth Sr HighLeavenworth1,23717.2
Lansing High 9-12Lansing86015.9
Richard Warren Middle SchoolLeavenworth42713.83%17%
MacArthur ElemFort Leavenworth42412.558%75%
Bradley ElemFort Leavenworth41213.777%83%
Richard Warren Intermediate SchoolLeavenworth40915.78%27%
Patton Jr HighFort Leavenworth38910.252%52%
David Brewer ElementaryLeavenworth31913.97%17%
Eisenhower ElemFort Leavenworth31711.370%73%
Henry LeavenworthLeavenworth29714.137%47%
Earl Lawson Early Education CenterLeavenworth28213.4
Anthony ElementaryLeavenworth27413.717%25%

41.2% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Kansas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,229 takes 20% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.6 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
20.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,229
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$193,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.64Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate52.1%Bottom 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±44614,864Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$92$1,229Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,835$193,000Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.2%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.6%Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
45/ 100
Ranks 1764 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing — 2 consecutive years, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has been broadly flat since 2020, at 37,370 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
13
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.3
Bottom 17% nationally
Year over year
+117%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202437k37k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025417.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−83%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 20°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 39.3 inches, including 18.2 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 36, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station KANSAS CITY INTL AP, 10.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index49.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation39.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall18.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low20°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index36.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing49°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
36
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
49
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

77 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, heat wave and hail.

Heat waveModerate
TornadoElevated
HailElevated

Low or minimal exposure: ice storm, winter weather, strong wind, cold wave, landslide, inland flooding, wildfire, lightning, drought, earthquake.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Leavenworth County records 5.2 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 21.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 28.7 per 100,000 residents in Leavenworth County.

Homicide
5.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
21.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
28.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
23.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Leavenworth County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Leavenworth rather than Leavenworth itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Kansas City IntlMCI11 mi10,801 ft
Rosecrans MemlSTJ31 mi8,061 ft
Topeka RgnlFOE47 mi12,803 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Kansas City, MO-KS

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Kansas CityJackson County510,61268vs Leavenworth
Overland ParkJohnson County200,30676vs Leavenworth
Kansas CityWyandotte County155,13558vs Leavenworth
OlatheJohnson County145,05778vs Leavenworth
IndependenceJackson County121,74063vs Leavenworth
Lee's SummitJackson County103,65679vs Leavenworth
ShawneeJohnson County68,54277vs Leavenworth
Blue SpringsJackson County59,96579vs Leavenworth
LenexaJohnson County58,38478vs Leavenworth
LeawoodJohnson County33,80974vs Leavenworth
LibertyClay County30,68976vs Leavenworth
RaytownJackson County29,44572vs Leavenworth

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Leavenworth

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
6604835,717$72,73459
660277,365$102,20868