Scores by category

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

Safety51#7,635/15,637
Economy47#8,355/15,631
Housing79#3,155/14,977
Health37#9,820/15,609
Healthcare53#7,375/15,650
Environment55#6,985/15,453
Education54#7,255/15,649
Infrastructure47#8,306/15,650
Community79#3,337/15,651
Leisure & amenities71#4,524/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Average commute time · low10.6 min
100/100Kansas 19.7 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Distance to an emergency room · low2.5 mi
98/100Kansas 5.2 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPratt County value
Child care cost burden · low18.2%
98/100Kansas 18.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePratt County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.7×
97/100Kansas 2.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Time spent in the emergency room · low100 min
96/100Kansas 129 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPratt County value
Gyms and fitness centers · high2.2 /10k
94/100Kansas 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPratt County value

Weaknesses

Traffic deaths · high46.1 /100k
2/100Kansas 13.5 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataPratt County value
Average weekly wage · low$945
10/100Kansas $1,216United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPratt County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.86%
10/100Kansas 1.21%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Public EV charging ports · low1.1 /10k
12/100Kansas 4.7 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyPratt County value
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Kansas 4.2 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Mental health providers · low109 /100k
16/100Kansas 266 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePratt County value

Trends

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

New homes permittedWorsening
0.2 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
29.4% (2015-2019) → 46.6% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.6% (2015-2019) → 86.2% (2020-2024)
+6.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
28.6% (2015-2019) → 22.8% (2020-2024)
−5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$49,767 (2015-2019) → $63,819 (2020-2024)
+28%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
High school diploma or higherWorsening
92.1% (2015-2019) → 88.4% (2020-2024)
−3.7 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, Pratt, Kansas improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 10 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.

Improved2

Household income+28%$49,767 → $63,819
Broadband+6.6 points79.6% → 86.2%

Declined2

Property tax+0.7 points1.14% → 1.86%
Rent burden+17 points29.4% → 46.6%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Pratt, Kansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	11.8 min2015-2019	10.6 min2020-2024	−1.2 min	Within the margin of error	62%
Bachelor's degree or higher	28.6%2015-2019	22.8%2020-2024	−5.8 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Broadband subscriptions	79.6%2015-2019	86.2%2020-2024	+6.6 points	Improved	41%
Child poverty rate	14.3%2015-2019	15.3%2020-2024	+0.9 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Effective property tax rate	1.14%2015-2019	1.86%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Declined	0%
High school diploma or higher	92.1%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	−3.7 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	1.7×2020-2024	−0.0×	Within the margin of error	80%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3992015-2019	0.3792020-2024	−0.020	Within the margin of error	68%
Median household income	$49,7672015-2019	$63,8192020-2024	+28%	Improved	51%
Poverty rate	13.9%2015-2019	14.3%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Rent as share of income	25.2%2015-2019	28.0%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Rent-burdened households	29.4%2015-2019	46.6%2020-2024	+17 points	Declined	12%
Unemployment rate	3.7%2015-2019	3.7%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.4%2015-2019	11.9%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	30%

“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 Pratt, Kansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pratt, 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, Pratt, Kansas itself moved −14.2 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

6,577 residents (±17)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29
10–19
Under 10

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under 10 women (−2.3 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

6,577 residents (±17)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

White82%5,369
Black0.8%†51
Hispanic or Latino9.9%654

Education

4,194 residents (±125)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

No high school diploma12%†487
High school or GED32%1,335
Some college26%1,076

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

2,463 households (±176)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $25k18%†438
$25k–50k21%508
$50k–75k24%590
$75k–100k16%385
$100k–150k15%369
$150k–200k4.6%†113
$200k or more2.4%†60

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $25k–50k (−10.6 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,463 households (±176)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

Own70%1,717
Rent30%746

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+9.6 points).

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

668 households (±129)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $75036%†239
$750–1,00041%†276
$1,000–1,50023%†153

Home values

1,717 homes (±182)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $150k64%1,102
$150k–250k26%443
$250k–400k7.6%†130

Age of homes

3,099 homes (±98)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

2010 or later0.8%†25
2000–20092.7%†85
1980–199918%559

Size of homes

3,099 homes (±98)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom13%†399
2 bedrooms32%998

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

3,068 workers (±217)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

Drive alone84%2,574
Carpool5.9%†181
Public transit0.4%†11
Walk4.0%†124
Bike0.4%†11
Work from home5.3%†164
Other0.1%†3

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

2,904 workers (±231)

Pratt, Kansas
Kansas share

Under 15 min82%2,377
15–29 min11%†314
30–44 min3.7%†108

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Pratt County, the county holding most of Pratt's residents.

Pratt County has 372 employer establishments, 409 for every 10,000 residents (1.65× the US rate of 248; 1.58× Kansas's), with 3,433 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,205. The Census Bureau also counts 788 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 372; 788 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 409; US 248 · Kansas 258
Paid employees: 3,433
Average annual pay: $47,205; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	28	30.8	1.99×More than typical	168	$64,964	46
Restaurants and other eating places	24	26.4	1.44×More than typical	436	$16,011	6
Ambulatory health care services	20	22	1.05×About typical	152	$85,987	22
Automotive repair and maintenance	15	16.5	3.27×More than typical	49	$41,776	17
Religious organizations	14	15.4	2.77×More than typical	37	$20,054	—
Limited-service restaurants	11	12.1	1.51×More than typical	306	$17,049	3
Full-service restaurants	10	11	1.43×More than typical	94	$16,404	3
Insurance agencies and brokerages	10	11	2.50×More than typical	32	$47,156	12
Traveler accommodation	10	11	6.09×More than typical	72	$20,167	—
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	9	9.9	2.43×Too few to compare	37	$38,216	8
Lessors of real estate	9	9.9	0.80×Too few to compare	17	$22,353	91
Truck transportation	9	9.9	1.96×Too few to compare	44	$50,773	34

Rank places for an industry Open Pratt County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,096 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Pratt, Kansas: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; 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

Spending by fiscal year

1.2KFY2017
229.2FY2018
12.5FY2019
83.4FY2020
122.4FY2022

What was bought

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 Pratt, Kansas, so they do not add up across cities.

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

See federal money in Pratt 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.

Pratt, 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.

Pratt County74100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Pratt 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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