What is the population of Newton city?

Newton city has 18,443 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #24 of 740 in Kansas.

What is the median household income in Newton city?

Median household income in Newton city is $67,015 a year, 14.7% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $903 a month and the median home value is $151,800, so rent absorbs about 16.2% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Newton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Newton, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Newton, Kansas (Newton, KS — Census place “Newton city”) is 18,443 residents, ranking #24 of 740 places in Kansas. Median household income is $67,015, the median home is worth $151,800 and median gross rent runs $903 a month. Looking for the Newton Kansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Newton, KS: 67114.

Population: 18,443Newton city residents
Median household income: $67,015Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $151,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $903Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 67.4%Owner-occupied households

Newton ZIP codes (Kansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Newton.

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

67114

What the numbers mean in Newton city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Newton city median would spend about 16.2% 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 2.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 8.3% of residents and 67.4% of households own their home.

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

Newton city, KS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Newton city is a mid-size town in Kansas, with 18,443 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #24 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 96% of them. The median age here is 39.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Newton city earn a median of $67,015 a year, 14.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 5% 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 8.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Newton city is valued at $151,800, 50% below the national figure and 16% above the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $903 a month, 35.8% below the national figure, or roughly $10,836 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.2% 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 2.3×, 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. 67.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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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What is the population of Newton city?: Newton city has 18,443 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #24 of 740 in Kansas.
What is the median household income in Newton city?: Median household income in Newton city is $67,015 a year, 14.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Newton city?: Median gross rent is $903 a month and the median home value is $151,800, so rent absorbs about 16.2% of median household income.
Is Newton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Newton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Newton 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.