Anthony is a city in Harper County, Kansas. It has 2,246 residents. Anthony, Kansas has a quality-of-life score of 42 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,049 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kansas it ranks #151 of 202 cities and towns. It ranks best on grocery stores (high), suicide rate (low) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on job growth (low), mental health providers (low) and gyms and fitness centers (low).
42Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#9,049 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kansas
#151 of 202 in KS
Population
2,246 (2020-2024)
Land area
3 mi²
Density
697.1 /mi²
FIPS code
2001975
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety64#5,575/15,637
Economy19#12,670/15,631
Housing87#1,971/14,977
Health25#11,701/15,609
Healthcare23#12,118/15,650
Environment31#10,667/15,453
Education60#6,301/15,649
Infrastructure23#11,978/15,650
Community76#3,751/15,651
Leisure & amenities51#7,660/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Anthony, Kansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Harper 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Anthony, Kansas five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Anthony, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Anthony is mostly in Harper County.
Over about five years, Anthony, Kansas improved on 0 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 13 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.
Improved0
No measure improved by more than its margin of error.
Declined1
Child poverty+15 points19.9% → 34.5%
Child poverty rate
19.9% → 34.5%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+15 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±13.6 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 53 → 20 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 92% of cities and towns
All 14 measures
Change of every measure of Anthony, Kansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
14.0 min2015-2019
14.2 min2020-2024
+0.2 min
Within the margin of error
45%
Bachelor's degree or higher
18.6%2015-2019
22.4%2020-2024
+3.9 points
Within the margin of error
59%
Broadband subscriptions
76.3%2015-2019
81.6%2020-2024
+5.3 points
Within the margin of error
34%
Child poverty rate
19.9%2015-2019
34.5%2020-2024
+15 points
Declined
8%
Effective property tax rate
2.05%2015-2019
2.20%2020-2024
+0.2 points
Within the margin of error
4%
High school diploma or higher
87.5%2015-2019
93.2%2020-2024
+5.7 points
Within the margin of error
85%
Home price to income ratio
1.3×2015-2019
1.4×2020-2024
+0.1×
Within the margin of error
75%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3952015-2019
0.4082020-2024
+0.013
Within the margin of error
40%
Median household income
$53,4622015-2019
$50,5982020-2024
−5.4%
Within the margin of error
5%
Poverty rate
16.2%2015-2019
21.1%2020-2024
+4.9 points
Within the margin of error
13%
Public transit commuters
0.0%2015-2019
0.0%2020-2024
0 points
Within the margin of error
60%
Rent as share of income
19.6%2015-2019
29.5%2020-2024
+9.9 points
Within the margin of error
10%
Rent-burdened households
29.0%2015-2019
49.7%2020-2024
+21 points
Within the margin of error
8%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
14.5%2015-2019
12.1%2020-2024
−2.4 points
Within the margin of error
72%
“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.
For comparison, Anthony, Kansas itself moved −13.3 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.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Harper County, the county holding most of Anthony's residents.
Harper County has 185 employer establishments, 343 for every 10,000 residents (1.38× the US rate of 248; 1.33× Kansas's), with 1,855 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,272. The Census Bureau also counts 441 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
185
441 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
343
US 248 · Kansas 258
Paid employees
1,855
Average annual pay
$46,272
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Harper County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 5,393 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.
Household income
897 households (±115)
Anthony, Kansas
Kansas share
Under $25k23%†210
Under $25k
23%±8.3 points
210 households±79 (90% margin of error)
14%in Kansas
15%in United States
+3.4 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k26%†233
$25k–50k
26%±7.2 points
233 households±71 (90% margin of error)
19%in Kansas
17%in United States
+3.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k26%†229
$50k–75k
26%±8.5 points
229 households±81 (90% margin of error)
18%in Kansas
16%in United States
−8.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k13%†114
$75k–100k
13%±6.0 points
114 households±56 (90% margin of error)
14%in Kansas
13%in United States
+5.0 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k7.6%†68
$100k–150k
7.6%±3.9 points
68 households±36 (90% margin of error)
18%in Kansas
18%in United States
−2.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k3.9%†35
$150k–200k
3.9%±3.3 points
35 households±30 (90% margin of error)
8.8%in Kansas
9.6%in United States
+1.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more0.9%†8
$200k or more
0.9%±1.0 points
8 households±9 (90% margin of error)
9.6%in Kansas
13%in United States
−2.0 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
