What is the population of Harper city?

Harper city has 1,191 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #178 of 740 in Kansas.

What is the median household income in Harper city?

Median household income in Harper city is $58,839 a year, 25.1% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Harper city?

Median gross rent is $809 a month and the median home value is $80,300, so rent absorbs about 16.5% of median household income.

Is Harper city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Harper city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Harper, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Harper, Kansas (Harper, KS — Census place “Harper city”) is 1,191 residents, ranking #178 of 740 places in Kansas. Median household income is $58,839, the median home is worth $80,300 and median gross rent runs $809 a month. Looking for the Harper Kansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Harper, KS: 67058.

Population: 1,191Harper city residents
Median household income: $58,839Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $80,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $809Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 38 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 64.6%Owner-occupied households

Harper ZIP codes (Kansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Harper.

The Harper KS ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

67058

What the numbers mean in Harper city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Harper city median would spend about 16.5% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 1.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 16.2% of residents and 64.6% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Harper city, KS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Harper city is a small town in Kansas, with 1,191 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #178 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 76% of them. The median age here is 38 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 Harper city earn a median of $58,839 a year, 25.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 8% below the $63,750 median for the 200 Kansas cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 16.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Harper city is valued at $80,300, 73.5% below the national figure and 39% below the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $809 a month, 42.5% below the national figure, or roughly $9,708 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.4×, 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. 64.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Harper city?: Harper city has 1,191 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #178 of 740 in Kansas.
What is the median household income in Harper city?: Median household income in Harper city is $58,839 a year, 25.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Harper city?: Median gross rent is $809 a month and the median home value is $80,300, so rent absorbs about 16.5% of median household income.
Is Harper city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Harper city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Harper city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.