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Rooks County, Kansas

Rooks County, Kansas has a quality-of-life score of 65 out of 100 (high), ranking #1,116 of 3,143 US counties. Within Kansas it ranks #64 of 105 counties. It ranks best on rent-burdened households (low), severe housing problems (low) and income inequality (Gini index) (low). It ranks worst on job growth (low), mental health providers (low) and effective property tax rate (high).

65High

Quality-of-life score: #1,116 of 3,143 counties
Kansas: #64 of 105 in KS
Population: 4,646 (2025)
Land area: 891 mi²
Density: 5.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 20163

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 77 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

Safety33#2,067/3,096
Economy57#1,342/3,143
Housing99#39/3,140
Health58#1,308/3,144
Healthcare59#1,277/3,143
Environment38#1,913/3,108
Education60#1,248/3,144
Infrastructure41#1,851/3,144
Community85#480/3,144
Leisure & amenities64#1,132/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Rooks County, Kansas ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Rent-burdened households · low25.9%
100/100Kansas 43.5%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Severe housing problems · low5.5%
100/100Kansas 12.3%United States 16.8%2017-2021University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.368
99/100Kansas 0.457United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Home price to income ratio · low1.4×
99/100Kansas 2.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Rent as share of income · low18.4%
98/100Kansas 27.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Average commute time · low14.1 min
98/100Kansas 19.7 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013

Weaknesses

Job growth · low-5.8%
4/100Kansas 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional data
Mental health providers · low21 /100k
5/100Kansas 266 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Effective property tax rate · high1.54%
6/100Kansas 1.21%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Distance to an airport · high154 mi
8/100Kansas 51 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau
Natural hazard risk · high86.4
12/100Kansas 32.02025Federal Emergency Management Agency
Public transit commuters · low0.0%
12/100Kansas 0.4%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301

Trends

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

DentistsWorsening
41 /100k (2020) → 21 /100k (2023)
−49%3 yearsUS 71 /100k → 75 /100k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.0% (2015-2019) → 83.4% (2020-2024)
+7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Preventable hospital staysImproving
3,635 /100k (2019) → 2,342 /100k (2023)
−36%4 yearsUS 3,767 /100k → 2,769 /100k
Income adjusted for local pricesImproving
$44,238 (2019) → $59,037 (2024)
+33%5 yearsUS $55,567 → $73,204
Traffic deathsWorsening
15.8 /100k (2015-2019) → 20.8 /100k (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsUS 11.3 /100k → 12.3 /100k
Property crime rateWorsening
567 /100k (2018) → 742 /100k (2024)
+31%6 yearsUS 2,185 /100k → 1,761 /100k

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, Rooks County, Kansas improved on 5 of 27 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 19 moved within the margin of error and 3 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among counties: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2015-2019 with 2020-2024); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved5

Weekly wage+29%$702 → $909
Real income+33%$44,238 → $59,037
Household income+24%$49,485 → $61,484
Broadband+7.4 points76.0% → 83.4%
New businesses+23%7.4 /1k → 9.0 /1k

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 27 measures

Change of every measure of Rooks County, Kansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	2.0 /10k2020	2.2 /10k2025	+5.2%	Within the margin of error	50%
Average commute time	15.1 min2015-2019	14.1 min2020-2024	−1.0 min	Within the margin of error	78%
Average weekly wage	$7022020	$9092025	+29%	Improved	82%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.1%2015-2019	23.2%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Broadband subscriptions	76.0%2015-2019	83.4%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Improved	26%
Child poverty rate	14.0%2019	11.7%2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Distance to an airport	154 mi2020	154 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Effective property tax rate	1.33%2015-2019	1.54%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Firearm deaths	14.6 /100k2020	0.0 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−100%	Within the margin of error	98%
Grocery stores	6.1 /10k2020	6.5 /10k2025	+5.2%	Within the margin of error	72%
High school diploma or higher	88.7%2015-2019	94.2%2020-2024	+5.5 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	1.4×2020-2024	−0.2×	Within the margin of error	94%
Income adjusted for local prices	$44,2382019	$59,0372024	+33%	Improved	61%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4012015-2019	0.3682020-2024	−0.033	Within the margin of error	90%
Median household income	$49,4852019	$61,4842024	+24%	Improved	47%
New business applications	7.4 /1k2020	9.0 /1k2025	+23%	Improved	25%
Pharmacies	2.0 /10k2020	2.2 /10k2025	+5.2%	Within the margin of error	84%
Poverty rate	10.5%2019	11.3%2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Public libraries	6.1 /10k2019	6.4 /10k2024	+4.7%	Within the margin of error	80%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Rent as share of income	21.3%2015-2019	18.4%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Rent-burdened households	27.7%2015-2019	25.9%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Restaurants and bars	18.4 /10k2020	17.2 /10k2025	−6.5%	Within the margin of error	32%
Students per teacher	9.6×2019	9.7×2024	+0.1×	Little change	23%
Traffic deaths	15.8 /100k2015-2019	20.8 /100k2020-2024	+31%	Within the margin of error	23%
Unemployment rate	3.9%2020	3.2%2025	−0.7 points	Little change	9%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.6%2019	12.0%2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	17%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 2431 counties that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Small Area Health Insurance Estimates; Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates; Public Libraries Survey; Common Core of Data; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. 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 3144 counties 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.

Counties like Rooks County, Kansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Rooks County, 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, Rooks County, Kansas itself moved −0 points in standing on average over the same 29 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

4,813 residents

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: 60–69 women (+2.5 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

4,813 residents

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

White91%4,399
Black1.9%†92
Hispanic or Latino3.2%156

Education

3,541 residents (±78)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

No high school diploma5.8%†207
High school or GED34%1,208
Some college23%813

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

2,136 households (±103)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $25k13%288
$25k–50k19%400
$50k–75k27%573
$75k–100k12%263
$100k–150k21%456
$150k–200k5.2%†111
$200k or more2.1%†45

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $25k–50k (−11.5 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

2,136 households (±103)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

Own74%1,587
Rent26%549

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

Table view

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

Rent paid

429 households (±104)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $75053%†228
$750–1,00022%†96
$1,000–1,50018%†79

Home values

1,587 homes (±113)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

Under $150k65%1,031
$150k–250k23%371
$250k–400k8.0%†127

Age of homes

2,635 homes (±23)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

2010 or later4.3%†113
2000–20092.8%†74
1980–19995.7%149

Size of homes

2,635 homes (±23)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

Studio0.2%†6
1 bedroom8.2%†215
2 bedrooms35%920

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

2,330 workers (±119)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

Drive alone82%1,909
Carpool8.5%197
Public transit0.0%0
Walk3.0%†69
Bike0.0%0
Work from home5.8%†135
Other0.9%†20

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

2,195 workers (±116)

Rooks County, Kansas
Kansas share

Under 15 min62%1,354
15–29 min21%453
30–44 min11%246

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.

Rooks County has 165 employer establishments, 345 for every 10,000 residents (1.39× the US rate of 248; 1.34× Kansas's), with 1,219 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,111. The Census Bureau also counts 536 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 165; 536 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 345; US 248 · Kansas 258
Paid employees: 1,219
Average annual pay: $45,111; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	12	25.1	1.37×More than typical	69	$10,507	—
Specialty trade contractors	12	25.1	1.62×More than typical	42	$53,619	61
Full-service restaurants	10	20.9	2.73×More than typical	53	$10,717	—
Building equipment contractors	8	16.8	2.78×Too few to compare	28	$57,071	5
Religious organizations	8	16.8	3.02×Too few to compare	37	$19,243	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	6	12.6	2.49×Too few to compare	29	$33,241	17
Banks and credit unions	4	8.4	2.59×Too few to compare	40	$98,150	—
Gasoline stations	4	8.4	2.58×Too few to compare	30	$19,633	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	4	8.4	1.91×Too few to compare	4	$56,500	8
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	4	8.4	2.54×Too few to compare	13	$24,615	—
Ambulatory health care services	3	6.3	0.30×Too few to compare	15	$31,867	13
Construction of buildings	3	6.3	0.83×Too few to compare	6	$48,500	11

Rank places for an industry

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 4,776 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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated -$901.5K on contracts performed in Rooks County, Kansas: -$194 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$901.5K
Per resident: -$194; 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

AMES CONSTRUCTION, INC.-$901.5K0.0%

Spending by fiscal year

157KFY2017
412.7KFY2018
137.1KFY2019
17MFY2020
5.2MFY2021
2.2MFY2022
658.9KFY2023
2.5MFY2024
-901.5KFY2026

What was bought

Largest awards

WEBSTER DAM SPILLWAY CHUTE REPLACEMENT, WEBSTER UNIT, SOLOMON UNIT DIVISION, PICK-SLOAN MISSOURI BASIN PROGRAM, KANSAS$26.6M
AMES CONSTRUCTION, INC.· Rooks County, KS· Construction & real property· Sep 16, 2020 – May 7, 2026· 140R6020C0015

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.

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Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $40.5M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Rooks County, Kansas: $8,713 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $40.5M; −21% vs FY2025
Per resident: $8,713; US $12,955
Loan face value: $986.9K; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 22%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$23.6M58%
10.988 · Supplemental Disaster Relief Program$8.9M22%

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

How Rooks County, Kansas compares: the federal money it received per resident, and how jobs, income, housing and other outcomes moved, each next to the United States.

Money per resident

By federal fiscal year (October to September, named by the year it ends), obligations per resident. A year with no record counts as $0.

Rooks County, Kansas
United States
partial year

Federal contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
FY2017	$31.05	$1,436
FY2018	$82.72	$1,552
FY2019	$27.78	$1,654
FY2020	$3,481	$1,880
FY2021	$1,069	$1,810
FY2022	$460	$1,917
FY2023	$138	$2,079
FY2024	$525	$2,047
FY2025	$0	$2,165
FY2026	-$194 (partial year)	$1,911

Construction contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
FY2017	$0	$93.28
FY2018	$0	$105
FY2019	$0	$128
FY2020	$3,479	$145
FY2021	$1,068	$117
FY2022

Contracts and grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
FY2021	$1,388	$5,748
FY2022	$483	$5,221
FY2023	$326	$5,364
FY2024	$646	$5,501
FY2025	$513	$5,732
FY2026	-$163

Transportation grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
FY2021	$307	$298
FY2022	$7.51	$357
FY2023	$124	$301
FY2024	$108	$319
FY2025	$476	$360
FY2026	$0

Housing assistanceUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
FY2021	$25.04	$239
FY2022	$36.74	$185
FY2023	$30.65	$229
FY2024	$38.02	$229
FY2025	$26.39	$249
FY2026	$25.55

HHS grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
FY2021	$0	$2,304
FY2022	$0	$2,197
FY2023	$52.35	$2,274
FY2024	$0	$2,267
FY2025	$0	$2,397
FY2026	$0

SBA lending volumeUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
FY2021	$2,092	$1,186
FY2022	$202	$465
FY2023	-$87.35	$76.52
FY2024	$72.08	$120
FY2025	$0	$148
FY2026	$160

Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)

How outcomes moved

Calendar years. Charts share the same years as the money above. Levels are shown as percent change since 2016; rates are shown as the rate itself.

Rooks County, Kansas
United States
Years with money loaded

Job growthpercent

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Job growth, Rooks County, Kansas and the United States, by year
Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	4.8%	2.0%
2015	−3.5%

When its money jumped

A county-year with at least 10,000 residents whose money per resident is at least twice its earlier average counts as a jump. Each is compared with up to five similar counties in the same region whose money did not jump.

Counties under 10,000 residents are not assessed: their money per resident swings too much from year to year.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Business Formation Statistics, Building Permits Survey, Cartographic Boundary Files, Gazetteer and metro delineations, Population Estimates Program, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission), Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System), Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordability. JSON · /api/v1/outcomes/places/20163

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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.

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

House

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

Senate

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Cities and towns in Rooks County

Places whose residents live mostly in Rooks County, largest first.

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
National Risk IndexFederal Emergency Management Agency · release v1.20.0
Health Professional Shortage AreasHealth Resources and Services Administration · release 2026-10-03
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
Common Core of DataNational Center for Education Statistics · release 2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement
Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordabilityZillow Research · release 2026-08

JSON · /api/v1/places/20163

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	+1.4%	−4.2%
2015	+0.9%	−1.3%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	−0.6%	+3.3%
2018	+3.8%	+6.8%
2019	+2.7%	+10.5%
2020	+10.6%	+19.4%
2021	+13.5%	+26.1%
2022	+22.8%	+30.6%
2023	+36.7%	+35.0%
2024	+35.1%	+41.0%
2025	+43.1%	+46.8%

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	+15.4%	−5.5%
2015	+8.8%	−1.9%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	−0.7%	+4.1%
2018	+11.1%	+8.9%
2019	+12.0%	+13.5%
2020	+32.9%	+20.8%
2021	+43.2%	+32.1%
2022	+31.9%	+35.4%
2023	+57.1%	+42.9%
2024	+45.6%	+49.5%

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	0.6/1k	3.3/1k
2015	0.6/1k	3.7/1k
2016	0.2/1k	3.7/1k
2017	0.2/1k	3.9/1k
2018	0.4/1k	4.1/1k
2019	0.2/1k	4.2/1k
2020	0.2/1k	4.4/1k
2021	0.2/1k	5.2/1k
2022	0.2/1k	5.0/1k
2023	0.4/1k	4.5/1k
2024	0.6/1k	4.3/1k
2025	0.6/1k	4.2/1k

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	+6.9%	−6.9%
2015	+0.1%	−3.2%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	−2.6%	+4.7%
2018	+4.6%	+7.5%
2019	+9.3%	+14.0%
2020	+13.5%	+16.9%
2021	+14.8%	+21.0%
2022	+26.0%	+29.7%
2023	+32.5%	+34.9%
2024	+35.8%	+41.6%

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	—	−10.8% (Dec 2014)
2015	—	−5.2% (Dec 2015)
2016	0.0% (Dec 2016)	0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017	+1.5% (Dec 2017)	+6.4% (Dec 2017)
2018	+3.9% (Dec 2018)	+12.6% (Dec 2018)
2019	+8.9% (Dec 2019)	+18.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	+27.2% (Dec 2020)	+29.3% (Dec 2020)
2021	+33.6% (Dec 2021)	+49.8% (Dec 2021)
2022	+50.4% (Dec 2022)	+64.7% (Dec 2022)
2023	+57.4% (Dec 2023)	+69.0% (Dec 2023)
2024	+68.7% (Dec 2024)	+73.4% (Dec 2024)
2025	+74.1% (Dec 2025)	+73.7% (Dec 2025)

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	3.6%	6.2%
2015	4.6%	5.3%
2016	4.8%	4.9%
2017	3.9%	4.4%
2018	3.2%	3.9%
2019	3.5%	3.7%
2020	3.9%	8.1%
2021	2.6%	5.4%
2022	2.7%	3.7%
2023	2.8%	3.6%
2024	3.4%	4.0%
2025	3.2%	4.3%

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	12.0%	15.5%
2015	11.7%	14.7%
2016	11.9%	14.0%
2017	10.9%	13.4%
2018	11.2%	13.1%
2019	10.5%	12.3%
2020	9.6%	11.9%
2021	10.0%	12.8%
2022	11.2%	12.6%
2023	11.2%	12.5%
2024	11.3%	12.1%

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	12.6%	13.5%
2015	10.2%	10.9%
2016	10.2%	10.0%
2017	10.9%	10.2%
2018	10.7%	10.4%
2019	11.6%	10.8%
2020	13.7%	10.4%
2021	14.4%	10.2%
2022	13.1%	9.5%
2023	11.7%	9.5%
2024	12.0%	9.8%

Calendar years	Rooks County, Kansas	United States
2014	10.0/1k	8.5/1k
2015	9.3/1k	8.7/1k
2016	5.3/1k	9.1/1k
2017	9.7/1k	9.8/1k
2018	6.6/1k	10.7/1k
2019	4.5/1k	10.6/1k
2020	7.4/1k	13.1/1k
2021	9.5/1k	16.2/1k
2022	6.3/1k	15.1/1k
2023	8.8/1k	16.2/1k
2024	8.5/1k	15.4/1k
2025	9.0/1k	16.6/1k

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