Basehor, Kansas.
Typical home $449,280 (+4.3% in a year), asking rent $1,475 . Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,291 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,637 +4%
- $430,642$449,280 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,946 +25%
- $358,333$449,280 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Basehor$2,358
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Basehor, KS rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Basehor, Leavenworth County, Kansas
Basehor is a city of 6,896 people in Leavenworth County. Half its households earn more than $116,769 a year and half less, against $89,218 across Leavenworth County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Leavenworth County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Basehor is a small city in Leavenworth County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners, well above what is typical across the country. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and the building trades. Across Leavenworth County, some of the biggest employers are the Veterans Health Administration, Leavenworth Schools and Walmart. The typical commute is a long one, though a good number of people work from home, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Sporting Park is a stadium, and Kansas Speedway is a race track for those who like to watch racing. Sandstone Amphitheater, also a short drive off, is an outdoor theatre for concerts. For a longer outing, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum with a well-known collection.
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- 2,775households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Leavenworth County had 21,756 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 17 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bonner Springs weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leavenworth County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs949
- Leavenworth SchoolsSchool district539FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters399
- Basehor-Linwood SchoolsSchool district383FTE
- Lansing SchoolsSchool district379FTE
- University of Saint MaryUniversity or college321
- Tonganoxie SchoolsSchool district304FTE
- Immediate Office of the Assistant Secretary for ManagementFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs290
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,135 people in all across the county; Basehor has two of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Basehor’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Leavenworth County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Basehor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Basehor$449,280
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Basehor listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Basehor38.89%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Basehor20
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Basehor39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Basehor14
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Basehor$450,435
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Basehor98.26%
Zip codes with a Basehor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Basehor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.