City · Phillips County, Kansas

Phillipsburg, Kansas

Phillipsburg is a city in Phillips County, Kansas. It has 2,130 residents. Phillipsburg, Kansas has a quality-of-life score of 75 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,984 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kansas it ranks #37 of 202 cities and towns. It ranks best on public libraries (high), social associations (high) and suicide rate (low). It ranks worst on distance to an airport (high), preventable hospital stays (high) and public EV charging ports (low).

75High

Quality-of-life score: #3,984 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kansas: #37 of 202 in KS
Population: 2,130 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,251.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 2055675

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety63#5,827/15,637
Economy32#10,666/15,631
Housing88#1,734/14,977
Health48#8,040/15,609
Healthcare28#11,240/15,650
Environment72#4,326/15,453
Education81#2,944/15,649
Infrastructure56#6,852/15,650
Community85#2,272/15,651
Leisure & amenities94#903/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Phillipsburg, Kansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Phillips 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

Public libraries · high12.6 /10k
100/100Kansas 1.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesPhillips County value
Social associations · high27.3 /10k
100/100Kansas 13.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePhillips County value
Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Kansas 18.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataPhillips County value
Pharmacies · high4.2 /10k
99/100Kansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPhillips County value
Students per teacher · low9.7×
99/100Kansas 13.3×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsPhillips County value
Grocery stores · high4.2 /10k
99/100Kansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPhillips County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an airport · high179 mi
1/100Kansas 51 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauPhillips County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,893 /100k
2/100Kansas 2,534 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePhillips County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Kansas 4.7 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyPhillips County value
Primary care physicians · low21 /100k
5/100Kansas 79 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePhillips County value
Traffic deaths · high33.2 /100k
6/100Kansas 13.5 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataPhillips County value
Average weekly wage · low$914
7/100Kansas $1,216United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPhillips County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,583 (2015-2019) → 2,130 (2020-2024)
−18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
78.7% (2015-2019) → 91.4% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
55.6% (2015-2019) → 43.1% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
32.1% (2015-2019) → 23.4% (2020-2024)
−8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
22.1% (2015-2019) → 30.3% (2020-2024)
+8.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Average commute timeWorsening
10.2 min (2015-2019) → 14.0 min (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Phillipsburg, Kansas improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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.

Improved1

Broadband+13 points78.7% → 91.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Phillipsburg, Kansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	10.2 min2015-2019	14.0 min2020-2024	+3.8 min	Within the margin of error	15%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.4%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Broadband subscriptions	78.7%2015-2019	91.4%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	72%
Child poverty rate	22.1%2015-2019	30.3%2020-2024	+8.2 points	Within the margin of error	14%
High school diploma or higher	90.6%2015-2019	92.5%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	1.6×2020-2024	−0.0×	Within the margin of error	81%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4632015-2019	0.4192020-2024	−0.044	Within the margin of error	81%
Median household income	$48,5792015-2019	$60,7502020-2024	+25%	Within the margin of error	44%
Poverty rate	12.0%2015-2019	14.5%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	32.1%2015-2019	23.4%2020-2024	−8.7 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Rent-burdened households	55.6%2015-2019	43.1%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Unemployment rate	3.7%2015-2019	4.5%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.4%2015-2019	8.8%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	54%

“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 Phillipsburg, Kansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Phillipsburg, 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, Phillipsburg, Kansas itself moved +15.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

2,130 residents (±175)

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

1,076 households (±99)

Phillipsburg, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $25k13%†144
$25k–50k32%344
$50k–75k11%†114

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,076 households (±99)

Phillipsburg, Kansas
Kansas share

Own75%810
Rent25%266

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

908 workers (±104)

Phillipsburg, Kansas
Kansas share

Drive alone87%786
Carpool4.0%†36
Public transit0.0%0

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 Phillips County, the county holding most of Phillipsburg's residents.

Phillips County has 211 employer establishments, 442 for every 10,000 residents (1.78× the US rate of 248; 1.71× Kansas's), with 1,563 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,637. The Census Bureau also counts 462 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 211; 462 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 442; US 248 · Kansas 258
Paid employees: 1,563
Average annual pay: $45,637; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	14	29.3	1.60×More than typical	87	$12,368	—
Religious organizations	13	27.2	4.91×More than typical	35	$18,914	—
Specialty trade contractors	10	21	1.35×More than typical	21	$40,952	37
Truck transportation	10	21	4.15×More than typical	40	$40,550	15
Automotive repair and maintenance	9	18.9	3.75×Too few to compare	19	$35,474	8
Banks and credit unions	8	16.8	5.19×Too few to compare	88	$60,568	—
Full-service restaurants	8	16.8	2.18×Too few to compare	38	$13,211	—
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	7	14.7	3.60×Too few to compare	26	$32,269	7
Ambulatory health care services	7	14.7	0.70×Too few to compare	58	$43,966	13
Child day care services	6	12.6	5.15×Too few to compare	28	$14,500	17
Insurance agencies and brokerages	6	12.6	2.86×Too few to compare	12	$53,000	16
Building equipment contractors	5	10.5	1.74×Too few to compare	4	$43,250	9

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 4,771 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Phillips 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.

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

House

Tracey MannR-KS-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 0.3%

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.

Phillips County81100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Phillips 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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