What is the population of Ellis County?

Ellis County has 28,870 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Ellis County?

Median household income in Ellis County is $59,889 a year, 23.7% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $899 a month and the median home value is $211,100, so rent absorbs about 18% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ellis County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Kansas · FIPS 20051

Ellis ZIP codes — Ellis County, Kansas

Quick answer

Ellis County is home to 28,870 residents with a median household income of $59,889 and a median home value of $211,100. 62.4% of households own their home and 17.7% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Ellis ZIP code? 8 ZIP code areas fall inside Ellis County, Kansas, listed in full below.

Population: 28,870Ellis County residents
Median household income: $59,889Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $211,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $899Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 32.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 62.4%Owner-occupied households

Ellis County, KS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Ellis County is a small city in Kansas, with 28,870 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 32.5 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 Ellis County earn a median of $59,889 a year, 23.7% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 17.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ellis County is valued at $211,100, 30.4% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $899 a month, 36.1% below the national figure, or roughly $10,788 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18% 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 62.4% 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.

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.

ZIP codes in Ellis County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Ellis 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 Ellis County?: Ellis County has 28,870 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Ellis County?: Median household income in Ellis County is $59,889 a year, 23.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ellis County?: Median gross rent is $899 a month and the median home value is $211,100, so rent absorbs about 18% of median household income.
Is Ellis County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ellis County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Ellis County 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.