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SheetKS-SHAWNEE-KS · Shawnee, KS 68,175 pop · income 81st pct
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 Shawnee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Shawnee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Albany · lowest
45,201
Albany · lowest
45,201 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #1
East Dailey · near
106,306
East Dailey · near
106,306 median HH income
75.7% of the leader · rank #2
Shawnee · this city
106,312
Shawnee · this city
106,312 median HH income
75.7% of the leader · rank #3
Erlands Point · near
106,313
Erlands Point · near
106,313 median HH income
75.7% of the leader · rank #4
Alger · near
106,318
Alger · near
106,318 median HH income
75.7% of the leader · rank #5
Kotzebue · near
106,328
Kotzebue · near
106,328 median HH income
75.7% of the leader · rank #6
Weston · highest
140,501
Weston · highest
140,501 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 Shawnee 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: 68,175.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Shawnee - the verdict
Nationally, Shawnee sits in the 81st percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
81st
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
6th
percentile, median rent
31st
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: Shawnee, KS
Shawnee is a small city in Kansas, home to 68,175 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Shawnee households earn a median of $106,312 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.2%. Typical homes in Shawnee are valued around $332,900, and the median resident age is 38.1 years. About 52.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 71.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 112 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 64% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2048.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Kansas run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Kansas at 90.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). 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). Commute times here average 17.8 minutes, with 73.5% driving alone and 18.3% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Shawnee'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 schools and households to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Shawnee, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Shawnee?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 52.4% 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.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Shawnee?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2048.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 10% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Shawnee?
Within Kansas, the closest population matches are Lenexa (57,986 residents, $102,344 income); Manhattan (53,951 residents, $58,441 income); Salina (46,432 residents, $60,624 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are South Hill, WA (68,161 residents); Eagan, MN (68,158 residents); Union City, CA (68,141 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Shawnee?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Shawnee?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.8 minutes.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
18.3%
Drive alone
73.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 37,443 workers age 16+.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,395 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 112 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+3.6%
2025 estimate
69,848
2020 estimate
67,453
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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
52.4%
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 A-
$106,312
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
277 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Shawnee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 86/100 (A) · 52.4%
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $106,312
Poverty rate: 77/100 (B+) · 3.2%
Violent crime: 36/100 (F) · 277 /100k
Where Shawnee sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Shawnee'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 - Shawnee highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Shawnee, KS (this city): home $332,900, crime 2,049/100k
Eagan, MN : home $380,800, crime 1,873/100k
Union City, CA : home $1,058,200, crime 2,643/100k
Jackson, TN : home $195,000, crime 4,111/100k
Albany, GA : home $118,700, crime 2,432/100k
Lenexa, KS : home $368,800, crime 1,531/100k
Salina, KS : home $164,500, crime 2,968/100k
Lawrence, KS : home $269,500, crime 2,618/100k
Hutchinson, KS : home $122,600, crime 2,597/100k
Leavenworth, KS : home $176,000, crime 3,084/100k
How does Shawnee compare to other US cities?
Where Shawnee sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent6% pricier than other cities
Safety31% 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, Shawnee ranks #81 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 Shawnee 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 Shawnee near the bottom of Kansas's cities
Among the 552 Kansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Shawnee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Shawnee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#23 of 527
96th percentile in Kansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 552
0th percentile in Kansas
Median Home Value
#16 of 527
97th percentile in Kansas
Poverty Rate
#414 of 552
25th percentile in Kansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#19 of 552
97th 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
81st percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Shawnee's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Shawnee'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 Shawnee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$332,90030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Shawnee's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,347 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#136 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.1×, Shawnee sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,347 of 15,516 and #136 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
$106,312Shawnee, KS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Shawnee, 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 Shawnee, KS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)52.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
68,175
Median Income
$106,312
Median Home Value
$332,900
Median Age
38.1
Poverty Rate
3.2%
Labor force participation
71.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
52.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2048.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
276.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1772.0
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Shawnee's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
67,453 residents
2021
67,486 residents
2022
68,837 residents
2023
69,258 residents
2024
69,578 residents
2025
69,848 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
112
housing units authorized
Single-Family
112
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
307
165
142
$52.4M
2020
254
187
67
$77.9M
2021
816
219
597
$158.3M
2022
331
145
186
$83.4M
2023
207
207
0
$72.4M
2024
112
112
0
$61.0M
Permit volume decreased 64% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.8 minutes
Drive Alone
73.5%
Carpool
5.9%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
18.3%
Other
1.5%
Based on 37,443 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 Shawnee. 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 Shawnee 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 Shawnee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Shawnee 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.