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The Bel Aire handbook

Living in Bel Aire, KS: what to set up and who to call

Bel Aire spans 2 ZIP codes; 67220 holds the most residents (60%). Wesley Medical Center, 6.3 miles away, is the nearest emergency room.

I’m new in town

What to set up in Bel Aire, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.

Home services

Power, water and internet

Who to call to start service at a new address in Bel Aire.

Electricity

Power comes from Evergy

Evergy (Evergy Kansas Central, Inc.), an investor-owned utility, serves all of Bel Aire. Its homes paid an average of 14.6¢ per kWh in 2025, about $124 a month (its average across Kansas).

Start or move service: evergy.com

Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.

Drinking water · reported to EPA

Water comes from City of Bel Aire water system

The City of Bel Aire water system supplies Bel Aire: about 82% of residents live in its service area. Sedgwick Co RWD 1 serves another 12%. About 6% of homes are outside any mapped community water system, most likely on private wells, which EPA doesn’t regulate. It buys treated surface water (EPA lists City of Wichita and Chisholm Creek Utility Authority as sellers) and serves 8,448 people in all.

No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 80% of the 5,012 systems serving 3,301–10,000 people.

Lead, 90th percentile3.7 ppb
015 ppb action level20

The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jan 2022–Dec 2024, was 3.7 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. The highest in five years was 6.1 ppb. That’s higher than 86% of similar systems’ latest results.

The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report

EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0. Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. KS2017304.

Internet

9 home internet providers serve Bel Aire

100% of 3,252 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 93% can get fiber.

ProviderTechnologyAddressesFastest (Mbps)
Cox CommunicationsCable, Fiber98%2,000/100
AT&TFiber, DSL, Fixed wireless96%5,000/5,000
VerizonFixed wireless80%300/20
KWIKOM CommunicationsFixed wireless41%60/12
NextlinkFixed wireless36%100/20
T-MobileFixed wireless27%100/20

FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.

Trash & recycling

Trash day in Bel Aire depends on your street

Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Bel Aire, from the town’s own site.

How trash works hereTown’s haulerWaste Connections picks up at the curb for every homebelaireks.gov
Trash dayBy addressDepends on your address
Pickup

Your pickup week

What goes in the recycling bin

Single-stream recycling

All your recyclables go in one bin, no sorting.

Furniture, appliances and bulky itemsFall curbside clean-up event (2025: Saturday, October 4); items set at curb before 6 a.m.; refrigerators must have freon removed and be tagged by a technician; items over 40 lbs not allowed
What can be recycledThe town’s recycling pagebelaireks.gov →

From belaireks.gov, the town’s official site, checked Oct 21, 2026; pages dated June 1, 2025, September 19, 2025. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .

Schools

Where your child goes to school

Public school districts and the school path by grade.

Bel Aire kids go to
PK–5Isely Traditional Magnet ElemWichita Unified School District 259
6–819 middle schoolsDepends on your address
9–12Northeast Magnet High SchoolWichita Unified School District 259

Most of Bel Aire (61%) is in Wichita Unified School District 259; parts are in Circle Unified School District 375 (39%).

DSchool gradeSee Schools →

U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.

Government & voting

Town hall and registering to vote

Who to call, and how to register.

Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Sep 2026; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.

ZIP codes & area codes

Bel Aire spans 2 ZIP codes

ZIP codes where Bel Aire residents live, with the share of the town in each.

ZIPPost office nameShare of Bel AireZIP’s residents in Bel Aire
67220Wichita, KS60%35%
67226Wichita, KS39%16%

A few homes fall in 67067.

Area code316Wikidata

Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.

Everyday places

Getting around, the ER and the library

One line each; the subject pages have the rest.

ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.

Questions about living in Bel Aire

Who supplies Bel Aire’s drinking water, and has it had violations?

The City of Bel Aire water system (EPA ID KS2017304). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 80% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 3.7 ppb (Jan 2022–Dec 2024), against a 15 ppb action level.

Who provides electricity in Bel Aire?

Evergy (Evergy Kansas Central, Inc.), an investor-owned utility. Its homes paid about 14.6¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).

What internet providers serve Bel Aire?

Cox Communications, AT&T, Verizon, KWIKOM Communications, Nextlink, T-Mobile (FCC, as of December 2025).

What ZIP codes are in Bel Aire?

67220 (60%), 67226 (39%), by share of residents. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.

What school district is Bel Aire in?

Wichita Unified School District 259. Parts of the city are in Circle Unified School District 375.

How do I register to vote in Bel Aire?

In Kansas you can register online until 21 days before Election Day, in person until 21 days before Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 21 days before). Elections here are run by the Sedgwick County Election Commissioner. Check your registration at myvoteinfo.voteks.org.

Sources & dates

Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.

  • Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
  • Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
  • Trash: Bel Aire’s own website (belaireks.gov), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
  • ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
  • Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
  • Registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
  • Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
  • Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.