City safety & data profile
WichitaKS
Wichita, KS is a 396K-resident city in Sedgwick County with a median household income of $64,620.
Sedgwick County, Kansas. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Wichita, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Wichita has a population larger than 99% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $190,800, and 8 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 396K
- Population (place)
- Top 1%
- By size
- $64,620
- Median income (place)
- $190,800
- Median home (place)
- 15.9%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Wichita
Wichita posts a median household income higher than 29% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 8 hospitals serve the Wichita area.
- Bottom 30%
- by median income, US cities
- 8
- hospitals in & near Wichita
Where Wichita income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$64,620 Bottom 29% higher than 29% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. 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, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in KS
Population among 36 KS places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Wichita
Wichita, KS
396,119 residents
- Overland Park
Overland Park, KS
186,515 residents
- Kansas City 152,933
Kansas City, KS
152,933 residents
- Olathe 134,305
Olathe, KS
134,305 residents
- Topeka 125,963
Topeka, KS
125,963 residents
- Lawrence 93,917
Lawrence, KS
93,917 residents
- Shawnee 65,046
Shawnee, KS
65,046 residents
- Manhattan 56,308
Manhattan, KS
56,308 residents
- Lenexa 52,490
Lenexa, KS
52,490 residents
- Salina 47,813
Salina, KS
47,813 residents
What this shows Wichita is the largest KS city on this list; Leawood leads median income.
Highest median incomes in KS
Median household income among the same 36-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Leawood
Leawood, KS
$185,625 median
- Olathe
Olathe, KS
$114,009 median
- Prairie Vill…
Prairie Village, KS
$113,530 median
- Shawnee
Shawnee, KS
$109,940 median
- Overland Park
Overland Park, KS
$104,834 median
- Andover
Andover, KS
$104,787 median
- Lenexa
Lenexa, KS
$103,239 median
- Lansing
Lansing, KS
$102,786 median
- Gardner
Gardner, KS
$96,818 median
- Derby
Derby, KS
$84,112 median
What this shows Leawood posts the highest place-level median income in KS; Wichita is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Wichita, KS beyond the headline numbers
Wichita sits inside Sedgwick County, Kansas, at roughly 37.69°N, -97.34°W. Population 396,119, $64,620 median household income. Median home value $190,800, median rent $975. Poverty rate 15.9%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
8 hospitals in/around Wichita, 3.8/5 avg rating, 4 with an ER.
Poverty in Wichita, KS stands at 15.9%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
Housing is inexpensive against local pay -- the median home in Wichita runs about 3.0 years of median household income, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities.
Only 7.7% of Wichita workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current smoking departs furthest from its peer median: 16.3% in Wichita, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Wichita from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Sedgwick County): Wichita's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 15.9% +28% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 5.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 31.1% |
| Work From Home | 7.7% |
| Public Transit | 0.7% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 8 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Wichita?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Wichita right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet KS-WICHITA · Wichita
Wichita: 1 tagged alert; lead category NWS weather alert.
- VOL-TRACE 1 on record
- WX-LED 100% weather
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston
Tagged alert mix: Wichita
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Weather Alerts
Weather Alerts
1
What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Wichita.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Wichita; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Kansas state hubs · Methodology
Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
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Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Wichita, both outside Kansas so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside KS (15.9% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside KS ($64,620 here).
Compare Wichita with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Wichita's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Wichita area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Wichita against Kansas peers on any ranking lens. Explore Kansas
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Sedgwick County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.