City · Butler County, Kansas

Andover, Kansas

Andover is a city in Butler County, Kansas, part of the Wichita, KS metro area. It has 15,965 residents. Andover, Kansas has a quality-of-life score of 75 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,969 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kansas it ranks #36 of 202 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent-burdened households (low), child poverty rate (low) and lack of reliable transportation (low). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), hospital quality rating (low) and dentists (low).

75High

Quality-of-life score: #3,969 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kansas: #36 of 202 in KS
Population: 15,965 (2020-2024)
Land area: 11 mi²
Density: 1,450.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 2001800

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety51#7,647/15,637
Economy89#1,737/15,631
Housing94#886/14,977
Health69#4,860/15,609
Healthcare53#7,323/15,650
Environment18#12,689/15,453
Education86#2,209/15,649
Infrastructure94#958/15,650
Community71#4,617/15,651
Leisure & amenities2#15,349/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Andover, Kansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Butler County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Rent-burdened households · low30.2%
98/100Kansas 43.5%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Child poverty rate · low4.5%
95/100Kansas 12.8%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Lack of reliable transportation · low5.2%
93/100Kansas 7.5%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Loneliness · low31.4%
93/100Kansas 31.5%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Child care cost burden · low21.2%
91/100Kansas 18.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteButler County value
Rent as share of income · low27.0%
91/100Kansas 27.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.4 /10k
1/100Kansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsButler County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Kansas 3.2United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesButler County value
Dentists · low28 /100k
9/100Kansas 64 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteButler County value
Pharmacies · low0.9 /10k
10/100Kansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsButler County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.3 /10k
10/100Kansas 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsButler County value
Restaurants and bars · low5.0 /10k
11/100Kansas 7.9 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsButler County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
13,062 (2015-2019) → 15,965 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
49.8% (2015-2019) → 30.2% (2020-2024)
−20 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedImproving
6.9 /1k (2021) → 10.3 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+51%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
88.4% (2015-2019) → 95.9% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.3× (2015-2019) → 2.8× (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
High school diploma or higherImproving
94.5% (2015-2019) → 98.1% (2020-2024)
+3.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Andover, Kansas improved on 3 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Rent burden−20 points49.8% → 30.2%
Broadband+7.5 points88.4% → 95.9%
Household income+17%$89,302 → $104,787

Declined1

Price / income+0.5×2.3× → 2.8×

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Andover, Kansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.9 min2015-2019	22.0 min2020-2024	+0.1 min	Within the margin of error	47%
Bachelor's degree or higher	52.4%2015-2019	51.7%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Broadband subscriptions	88.4%2015-2019	95.9%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Improved	46%
Child poverty rate	6.5%2015-2019	4.5%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Effective property tax rate	1.84%2015-2019	1.70%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
High school diploma or higher	94.5%2015-2019	98.1%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+0.5×	Declined	46%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4102015-2019	0.4152020-2024	+0.005	Within the margin of error	46%
Median household income	$89,3022015-2019	$104,7872020-2024	+17%	Improved	28%
Poverty rate	6.6%2015-2019	4.6%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.9%2015-2019	27.0%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	74%
Rent-burdened households	49.8%2015-2019	30.2%2020-2024	−20 points	Improved	93%
Unemployment rate	2.5%2015-2019	2.7%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	4.8%2015-2019	6.1%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	31%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Andover, Kansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Andover, Kansas in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Andover, Kansas itself moved +7.6 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

15,965 residents (±404)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

5,269 households (±262)

Andover, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $25k6.2%†325
$25k–50k8.5%†448
$50k–75k17%

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

5,269 households (±262)

Andover, Kansas
Kansas share

Own81%4,251
Rent19%1,018

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+6.4 points).

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

7,553 workers (±416)

Andover, Kansas
Kansas share

Drive alone80%6,066
Carpool6.7%†505
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Wichita, KS

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Butler County, the county holding most of Andover's residents.

Butler County has 1,396 employer establishments, 204 for every 10,000 residents (0.82× the US rate of 248; 0.79× Kansas's), with 13,757 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,437. The Census Bureau also counts 5,075 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,396; 5,075 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 204; US 248 · Kansas 258
Paid employees: 13,757
Average annual pay: $48,437; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Butler County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	132	19.3	1.24×About typical	559	$54,404	349
Ambulatory health care services	119	17.4	0.83×About typical	923	$42,460	255
Restaurants and other eating places	93	13.6	0.74×Fewer than typical	1,578	$16,141	18
Lessors of real estate	61	8.9	0.72×Fewer than typical	122	$48,762	530
Construction of buildings	53	7.7	1.02×About typical	348	$70,641	151
Limited-service restaurants	52	7.6	0.95×About typical	993	$15,569	7
Religious organizations	50	7.3	1.31×More than typical	295	$18,064	—
Building equipment contractors	48	7	1.16×About typical	206	$51,092	73
Insurance agencies and brokerages	41	6	1.36×More than typical	140	$48,293	109
Offices of other health practitioners	41	6	0.98×About typical	126	$49,524	131
Offices of physicians	41	6	0.92×About typical	201	$58,871	64
Truck transportation	39	5.7	1.12×About typical	235	$52,264	83

Rank places for an industry Open Butler County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 68,571 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated -$341 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Andover, Kansas: -$0.02 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$341; −105% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.02; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

JONES ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC.-$3410.0%

Spending by fiscal year

10.5KFY2017
45.2KFY2018
8.7KFY2019
35.2KFY2020
-295.6FY2021
2.9KFY2022
6.5KFY2023
-4.5KFY2024
6.4K

What was bought

Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$10.18100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$1420.0%
Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$56.020.0%
Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing · 3327$31.490.0%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325$5.440.0%
Support activities for mining · 2131$1.380.0%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Andover, Kansas, so they do not add up across cities.

Andover, Kansas's figures are part of those of Butler County, KS ($27.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Andover is mostly in Butler County.

See federal money in Butler County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Andover, Kansas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Ron EstesR-KS-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.2%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Butler County70100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Wichita, KS54

Other cities and towns in Butler County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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