What is the population of Edwards County?

Edwards County has 2,817 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Edwards County?

Median household income in Edwards County is $53,792 a year, 31.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Edwards County?

Median gross rent is $732 a month and the median home value is $70,500, so rent absorbs about 16.3% of median household income.

Is Edwards County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Edwards County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Kansas · FIPS 20047

Edwards ZIP codes — Edwards County, Kansas

Quick answer

Edwards County is home to 2,817 residents with a median household income of $53,792 and a median home value of $70,500. 82.1% of households own their home and 16.4% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Edwards ZIP code? 4 ZIP code areas fall inside Edwards County, Kansas, listed in full below.

Population: 2,817Edwards County residents
Median household income: $53,792Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $70,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $732Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 44.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 82.1%Owner-occupied households

Edwards County, KS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Edwards County is a small town in Kansas, with 2,817 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 44.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Edwards County earn a median of $53,792 a year, 31.5% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 16.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Edwards County is valued at $70,500, 76.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $732 a month, 47.9% below the national figure, or roughly $8,784 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.3% 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 1.3×, 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. 82.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

ZIP codes in Edwards County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Edwards County.

How to read this page

What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

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

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Edwards County?: Edwards County has 2,817 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Edwards County?: Median household income in Edwards County is $53,792 a year, 31.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Edwards County?: Median gross rent is $732 a month and the median home value is $70,500, so rent absorbs about 16.3% of median household income.
Is Edwards County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Edwards County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Edwards County 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.