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Place dossier plate
SheetKS-LARNED-KS · Larned, KS 3,328 pop · income 23rd pct · 2 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Larned
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Larned on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
East Brewton · lowest
43,070
East Brewton · lowest
43,070 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #1
Town of Pines · near
51,944
Town of Pines · near
51,944 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #2
Dennison · near
51,949
Dennison · near
51,949 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #3
Larned · this city
51,957
Larned · this city
51,957 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #4
Mott · near
51,964
Mott · near
51,964 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #5
Preston Heigh… · near
51,970
Preston Heigh… · near
51,970 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #6
Mayfield · highest
120,682
Mayfield · highest
120,682 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Larned on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 3,328.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Larned - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Larned places in the 23rd percentile for household income and the 48th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
23rd
percentile, household income
9th
percentile, home value
6th
percentile, median rent
48th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Larned, KS
3,328 people live in Larned, Kansas - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Larned report a median income of $51,957 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.6%. Larned's housing stock carries a median value of $99,600, and the median resident age is 46.6 years. Educational attainment runs 21.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 54.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in Larned (No Permits), per Census BPS data. Larned reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1427.0 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 55.6°F with 27.2 inches of precipitation per year.
Living costs in Kansas run below the national norm: the state registers 90.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $947 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Kansas's average monthly utility costs around $217 (state average). Workers in Larned report an average commute of 21.0 minutes, with 76.4% driving alone and 8.2% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 29.9 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Larned's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from population change to climate and hazard context to within-city variation to housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Larned, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Larned growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -180 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -4.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 55.6°F, with 27.2 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Kansas is 29.9 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Larned?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Kansas, the closest population matches are Frontenac (3,381 residents, $56,867 income); Holton (3,384 residents, $51,390 income); Marysville (3,423 residents, $61,607 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodlawn Beach, FL (3,328 residents); Nahant, MA (3,328 residents); Lordstown, OH (3,329 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Larned?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
1.9×
Home value
$99,600
Household income
$51,957
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 21.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
3.6%
Bachelor's degree+
21.6%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Larned?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.0 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Drive alone
76.4%
Work from home
8.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,516 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Larned?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1427.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 37% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
1427.0
Violent rate
384.2
Property rate
1042.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A
90.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate B
3.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$51,957
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
384 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Larned profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 39/100 (F) · 21.6%
Household income: 23/100 (F) · $51,957
Violent crime: 23/100 (F) · 384 /100k
Where Larned sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Larned's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Larned highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Larned, KS (this city): home $99,600, crime 1,427/100k
Nahant, MA : home $686,000, crime 537/100k
Lordstown, OH : home $161,900, crime 753/100k
East Brewton, AL : home $87,300, crime 2,724/100k
Frontenac, KS : home $165,400, crime 1,010/100k
Holton, KS : home $143,400, crime 1,688/100k
Marysville, KS : home $110,000, crime 1,031/100k
Hiawatha, KS : home $112,500, crime 1,737/100k
Garnett, KS : home $137,800, crime 1,571/100k
Beloit, KS : home $99,100, crime 1,106/100k
How does Larned compare to other US cities?
Larned measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income23% higher than other cities
Home value9% pricier than other cities
Median rent6% pricier than other cities
Safety48% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Kansas alone, Larned ranks #53 of 109 Kansas cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Larned against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Kansas only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Kansas-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Larned near the bottom of Kansas's cities
Among the 552 Kansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Larned ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Larned only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#368 of 527
30th percentile in Kansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 552
0th percentile in Kansas
Median Home Value
#242 of 527
54th percentile in Kansas
Poverty Rate
#398 of 552
27th percentile in Kansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#247 of 552
55th percentile in Kansas
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Kansas only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
23rd percentile nationally for median household income · 48th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Larned's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Larned's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Larned's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$99,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 91% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Larned's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,365 of 15,516
More affordable than 91% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,315 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.9×, Larned sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,365 of 15,516 and #1,315 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$51,957Larned, KS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Larned, KS median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Larned, KS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,328
Median Income
$51,957
Median Home Value
$99,600
Median Age
46.6
Poverty Rate
3.6%
Labor force participation
54.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1427.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
384.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1042.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
55.6°F
Annual Precipitation
27.2"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Larned's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,776 residents
2021
3,773 residents
2022
3,715 residents
2023
3,673 residents
2024
3,635 residents
2025
3,596 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.0 minutes
Drive Alone
76.4%
Carpool
12.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.5%
Work from Home
8.2%
Based on 1,516 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Kansas statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $217
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Kansas at $217 (electricity about $110 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Kansas statewide averages, not a meter reading for Larned. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Kansas's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.1 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Larned is $947/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Kansas statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 29.9 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Kansas statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Larned sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Larned compares to similar-size Kansas cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.