
Kansas · FIPS 20179
Sheridan ZIP codes — Sheridan County, Kansas
Quick answer
Sheridan County is home to 2,442 residents with a median household income of $70,000 and a median home value of $152,000. 75.4% of households own their home and 10.4% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Sheridan ZIP code? 2 ZIP code areas fall inside Sheridan County, Kansas, listed in full below.
- Population
- 2,442Sheridan County residents
- Median household income
- $70,000Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $152,000Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $663Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 43.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 75.4%Owner-occupied households
Sheridan County, KS in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Sheridan County is a small town in Kansas, with 2,442 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 43.4 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 Sheridan County earn a median of $70,000 a year, 10.9% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 10.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Sheridan County is valued at $152,000, 49.9% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $663 a month, 52.8% below the national figure, or roughly $7,956 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.4% 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. 75.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 Sheridan County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Sheridan 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
Cities and towns in Kansas
Largest Census places in Kansas by population.
- Wichita city 396,488
- Overland Park city 197,199
- Kansas City city 154,776
- Olathe city 143,720
- Topeka city 126,103
- Lawrence city 95,459
- Shawnee city 68,175
- Lenexa city 57,986
- Manhattan city 53,951
- Salina city 46,432
- Hutchinson city 39,837
- Leavenworth city 37,176
Nearby counties
Other counties in Kansas.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Sheridan County?
- Sheridan County has 2,442 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Sheridan County?
- Median household income in Sheridan County is $70,000 a year, 10.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sheridan County?
- Median gross rent is $663 a month and the median home value is $152,000, so rent absorbs about 11.4% of median household income.
- Is Sheridan County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sheridan County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 11.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Sheridan 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.