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Garden City, KS

27,933 Population
11 square miles 2,537.2 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2022 5-year unless noted

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Demographics

32.3 ±1.1 Median age
  • about the same as the figure in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 32.3 ±0.5
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Kansas: 37.1 ±0.1

Economics

$30,321 ±$1,557 Per capita income
  • about the same as the amount in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: $29,773 ±$1,171
  • about 80 percent of the amount in Kansas: $38,108 ±$364
$67,500 ±$4,967 Median household income
  • about the same as the amount in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: $68,481 ±$3,826
  • a little less than the amount in Kansas: $69,747 ±$479

13% ±3.3% (3,545  ±910) Persons below poverty line
  • about the same as the rate in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 13.1% † 5,398 (±2.5% / ±1,040)
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in Kansas: 11.6% 329,870 (±0.3% / ±7,570)

14.1 minutes ±0.6 (188,440  ±10,983) Mean travel time to work
  • a little less than the figure in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 15 288,510 (±0.7 / ±16,436)
  • about three-quarters of the figure in Kansas: 19.7 25,744,330 (±0.1 / ±198,234)

Families

9,920 ±310 Number of households
  • the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 14,373 ±300
  • Kansas: 1,148,635 ±4,002
2.8 ±0.1 (27,241  ±50) Persons per household
  • a little less than the figure in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 2.9 41,381 (±0.1 / ±26)
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in Kansas: 2.5 2,849,396

7.1% ±3% (423  ±182) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • about the same as the rate in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 7.1% † 676 (±2.3% / ±220)
  • about 20 percent higher than the rate in Kansas: 6% 39,789 (±0.2% / ±1,453)

Housing

10,772 ±227 Number of housing units
  • the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 15,756 ±49
  • Kansas: 1,278,548 ±518

$178,900 ±$8,095 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • about the same as the amount in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: $182,100 ±$6,698
  • a little less than the amount in Kansas: $189,300 ±$1,228

20.4% ±4.2% (5,612  ±1,148.4) Moved since previous year
  • about 20 percent higher than the rate in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 17.6% † 7,312 (±2.9% / ±1,215.3)
  • about 1.3 times the rate in Kansas: 15.6% 451,476 (±0.3% / ±7,585.2)

Social

69.2% ±4.3% (11,732  ±,779.1) High school grad or higher
  • a little less than the rate in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 72.9% 18,171 (±3.6% / ±894)
  • about three-quarters of the rate in Kansas: 91.8% 1,768,151 (±0.5% / ±9,162)
17.9% ±2.1% (3,034  ±,354.8) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about the same as the rate in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 18.3% 4,568 (±1.7% / ±,418.3)
  • about half the rate in Kansas: 34.7% 668,265 (±0.3% / ±5,604.1)

N/A Persons with language other than English spoken at home

25.2% ±1.9% (7,038  ±526) Foreign-born population
  • about 20 percent higher than the rate in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 21.1% 8,871
  • more than double the rate in Kansas: 7.1% 207,290

3.6% ±0.7% (724  ±135) Population with veteran status
  • a little less than the rate in the Garden City, KS Micro Area: 3.8% † 1,119 (±0.6% / ±161)
  • about half the rate in Kansas: 7.4% 163,472 (±0.1% / ±2,693)
724 Total veterans ±135 657 Male ±125 67 Female ±52

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