What is the population of Liberal city?

Liberal city has 19,107 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #23 of 740 in Kansas.

What is the median household income in Liberal city?

Median household income in Liberal city is $61,875 a year, 21.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $931 a month and the median home value is $134,500, so rent absorbs about 18.1% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Liberal city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Liberal, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Liberal, Kansas (Liberal, KS — Census place “Liberal city”) is 19,107 residents, ranking #23 of 740 places in Kansas. Median household income is $61,875, the median home is worth $134,500 and median gross rent runs $931 a month. Looking for the Liberal Kansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Liberal, KS: 67901.

Population: 19,107Liberal city residents
Median household income: $61,875Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $134,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $931Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 30.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 58.4%Owner-occupied households

Liberal ZIP codes (Kansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Liberal.

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

67901

What the numbers mean in Liberal city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Liberal city median would spend about 18.1% 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 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 14.2% of residents and 58.4% of households own their home.

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

Liberal city, KS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Liberal city is a mid-size town in Kansas, with 19,107 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #23 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 30.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Liberal city earn a median of $61,875 a year, 21.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 3% below the $63,750 median for the 200 Kansas cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 14.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Liberal city is valued at $134,500, 55.7% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $931 a month, 33.8% below the national figure, or roughly $11,172 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.1% 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 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. 58.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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

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What is the population of Liberal city?: Liberal city has 19,107 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #23 of 740 in Kansas.
What is the median household income in Liberal city?: Median household income in Liberal city is $61,875 a year, 21.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Liberal city?: Median gross rent is $931 a month and the median home value is $134,500, so rent absorbs about 18.1% of median household income.
Is Liberal city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Liberal city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Liberal city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.