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Place dossier plate
SheetKS-OVERLAND-PARK-KS · Overland Park, KS 197,199 pop · income 80th pct · 154 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 Overland Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Overland Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sunrise Manor · lowest
55,034
Sunrise Manor · lowest
55,034 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #1
Centennial · near
103,828
Centennial · near
103,828 median HH income
86.6% of the leader · rank #2
Providence · near
103,831
Providence · near
103,831 median HH income
86.6% of the leader · rank #3
Overland Park · this city
103,838
Overland Park · this city
103,838 median HH income
86.6% of the leader · rank #4
Chino · near
103,845
Chino · near
103,845 median HH income
86.6% of the leader · rank #5
Eagle · near
103,850
Eagle · near
103,850 median HH income
86.6% of the leader · rank #6
Huntington Be… · highest
119,885
Huntington Be… · highest
119,885 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 Overland Park 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: 197,199.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Overland Park - the verdict
Nationally, Overland Park sits in the 80th percentile for household income and the 34th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
80th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
6th
percentile, median rent
34th
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: Overland Park, KS
Overland Park is a mid-sized U.S. city in Kansas, home to 197,199 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Overland Park report a median income of $103,838 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.9%. Home values in Overland Park run a median of $384,400, and the median resident age is 38.6 years. About 62.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 69.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 588 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 51% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1945.9 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Kansas run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Kansas scores 90.1 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $947 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Kansas's average monthly utility costs around $217 (state average). Workers in Overland Park report an average commute of 15.5 minutes, with 70.5% driving alone and 22.2% 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 Overland Park'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 comparison shortlist to within-city variation to housing and income to reported crime to population change to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Overland Park, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Overland Park?
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 Kansas City (154,776 residents, $59,183 income); Olathe (143,720 residents, $112,232 income); Topeka (126,103 residents, $55,902 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sioux Falls, SD (197,642 residents); Grand Rapids, MI (197,768 residents); Huntington Beach, CA (196,010 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.
What can 154 Census tracts reveal inside Overland Park?
PlainCities matches 154 Census tracts to this city.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Overland Park?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Overland Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1945.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 15% 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.
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.
Population change
Is Overland Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,842 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 588 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 upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
197,835
2025 estimate
203,677
Period change
+3.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for Overland Park?
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 30 public schools within the city match. 62.9% 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
2.9%
Bachelor's degree+
62.9%
Matched public schools
30
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Overland Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.5 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
70.5%
Work from home
22.2%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 107,608 workers age 16+.
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
62.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Household income B+
$103,838
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
2.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
184 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Overland Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 62.9%
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $103,838
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 2.9%
Violent crime: 50/100 (C-) · 184 /100k
Where Overland Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Overland Park'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 - Overland Park highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Overland Park, KS (this city): home $384,400, crime 1,946/100k
Sioux Falls, SD : home $271,400, crime 3,442/100k
Grand Rapids, MI : home $225,500, crime 3,391/100k
Huntington Beach, CA : home $1,047,300, crime 2,196/100k
Montgomery, AL : home $148,500, crime 2,830/100k
Grand Prairie, TX : home $272,200, crime 1,822/100k
Kansas City, KS : home $147,100, crime 4,654/100k
Olathe, KS : home $340,600, crime 1,137/100k
Topeka, KS : home $130,600, crime 4,499/100k
Lawrence, KS : home $269,500, crime 2,618/100k
Shawnee, KS : home $332,900, crime 2,049/100k
Lenexa, KS : home $368,800, crime 1,531/100k
How does Overland Park compare to other US cities?
Here's how Overland Park stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent6% pricier than other cities
Safety34% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Kansas, Overland Park ranks #74 of 109 Kansas cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Overland Park 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 Overland Park near the bottom of Kansas's cities
Among the 552 Kansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Overland Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Overland Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#26 of 527
95th percentile in Kansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 552
0th percentile in Kansas
Median Home Value
#11 of 527
98th percentile in Kansas
Poverty Rate
#421 of 552
23rd percentile in Kansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#12 of 552
98th 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
80th percentile nationally for median household income · 34th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Overland Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Overland Park'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 Overland Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$384,40024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Overland Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,721 of 15,516
More affordable than 37% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#263 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.7×, Overland Park sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,721 of 15,516 and #263 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$103,838Overland Park, KS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Overland Park, 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 Overland Park, KS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)62.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
197,199
Median Income
$103,838
Median Home Value
$384,400
Median Age
38.6
Poverty Rate
2.9%
Labor force participation
69.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
62.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1945.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
184.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1761.5
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.
Schools
Total Schools
30
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Overland Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
197,835 residents
2021
199,098 residents
2022
200,449 residents
2023
201,131 residents
2024
202,402 residents
2025
203,677 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
588
housing units authorized
Single-Family
404
detached homes
Multifamily
184
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,189
328
861
$250.8M
2020
472
376
96
$138.4M
2021
705
635
70
$237.1M
2022
473
383
90
$159.7M
2023
826
251
575
$211.8M
2024
588
404
184
$203.4M
Permit volume decreased 51% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.5 minutes
Drive Alone
70.5%
Carpool
5.1%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
22.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 107,608 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 Overland Park. 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 Overland Park 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 Overland Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Overland Park 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, 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.