Ellis, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Ellis city is a small town in Kansas, with 2,145 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #114 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 34.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Ellis city earn a median of $70,274 a year, 10.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 10% above the $63,750 median for the 200 Kansas cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 17.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ellis city is valued at $156,900, 48.3% below the national figure and 19% above the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 75.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

The Census withheld gross rent for Ellis city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.