Roeland Park, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Roeland Park city is a mid-size town in Kansas, with 6,800 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #51 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 33.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Roeland Park city earn a median of $89,385 a year, 13.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 40% 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 11.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Roeland Park city is valued at $262,700, 13.4% below the national figure and 100% above the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,552 a month, 10.4% above the national figure, or roughly $18,624 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 66.9% 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.

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.