Lenexa, Kansas.
Typical home $477,263 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $1,730 (+4.0%). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,355 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,781 +4%
- $460,482$477,263 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,270 +28%
- $372,993$477,263 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.
- Lenexa$2,505
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lenexa, KS rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lenexa, KS rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Lenexa runs $1,738/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,747 in Jan 2025.
That is $3,468 a month against $1,730 rent: a $2,505 mortgage payment, plus $452 property tax and $511 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lenexa
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,468
- Renting$1,730
- Mortgage only$2,505
Property tax · $452/mo 1.14% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Johnson County, KS
Insurance & upkeep · $511/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Lenexa, Johnson County, Kansas
Lenexa is a city of 57,434 people in Johnson County. Half its households earn more than $103,239 a year and half less, against $109,208 across Johnson County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Lenexa was 4.1% in August 2026, and Johnson County had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Lenexa is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, and a fairly even mix of owners and renters, though more homes are lived in by their owners than not. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Lenexa are Renzenberger, a vanpool operation, UPS, and Amazon, both in couriers and express delivery. Many adults hold a four-year degree, commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Job numbers across Johnson County have edged up slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The best known places nearby are in the wider Kansas City area, each a longer drive away. Arrowhead Stadium is a stadium, the Kansas River is a river, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is a museum. Sports fans, walkers by the water and museum-goers can each find an outing without going far beyond the metro area.
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- 24,776households
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 372,167 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 14 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Olathe 3E weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lenexa
- RenzenbergerVanpool operation4,877
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,201
- WachterLow voltage electrical work1,967
- PAR Electrical ContractorsElectric power transmission line and tower construction1,101
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services924
- Lakeview VillageContinuing care retirement communities585
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Lenexa, KS (MBD)Diagnostic substances, in-vitro, manufacturing537
- Biomune Company LenexaVaccines manufacturing475
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 148 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 24,578 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of LenexaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lenexa’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Johnson County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Lenexa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lenexa$477,263
- 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 Lenexa listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 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.
- Lenexa32.51%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lenexa8
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lenexa116
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lenexa54
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lenexa$494,980
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Lenexa100.73%
Zip codes with a Lenexa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lenexa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lenexa
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66215 | Lenexa | 25,960 | $1,621 | $394,284 |
| 66219 | Lenexa | 13,519 | $1,765 | $463,745 |
| 66227 | Lenexa | 9,595 | $2,423 | $563,435 |
| 66220 | Lenexa | 8,535 | $1,718 | $686,097 |