Grant TownshipKS
A town of 5,743.
Is Grant Township a good place to live?
Grant Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades A overall, ranked 8th of 150 in Kansas, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $95K. It also does better than most on health: residents are healthier than 77% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $242K, 3.4 years of the Wichita metro’s $71K median household income. 50% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Grant Township, against 29% in Kansas’ towns and 29% across U.S. towns.
What makes Grant Township stand out
Where Grant Township beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Grant Township for work
Where Grant Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Grant Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kansas), ordered by how far Grant Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Grant Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Grant Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Grant Township.
Grant Township sends most of its workers to Wichita and beyond, but it has little public open land.
Grant Township earns an A− for health
75% of Grant Township adults had a checkup this year. Grant Township beats the Kansas average on 10 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 12% of Grant Township adults report frequent physical distress.
| Grant Township | Kansas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 77% | 79% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 26% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 19% |
| What stands out | Grant Township | KS |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.4% | 13% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.5% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Grant Township’s public schools outperform 77% of Kansas districts
Three of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Valley Center High, with 1,011 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Center Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 802 | C+ |
| Valley Center HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,011 | C |
| Abilene ElemTop results in townGrades PK–3 | Grades PK–3 | 254 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within KS on state tests and graduation
More than half of Grant Township’s working residents commute to Wichita
Grant Township has 570 jobs for its 2,497 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 419 in 2013 to 570.
Most working residents leave Grant Township for work: only 2% work in town. 3.3% of residents live below the poverty line in Grant Township. Since 2013, Grant Township has added 151 jobs, to 570 in 2023.
| Grant Township | Kansas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 3.3% | 9.2% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 15% | 8% |
| Median household income | $95,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 20 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and hot summers in Grant Township
Grant Township has chilly winters and hot summers. The July high in Grant Township is 92°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Grant Township faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 58% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0.1% of Grant Township is conserved land
Just 26 of its 22,886 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Grant Township itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.5 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. McLaughlin Park | 0.4 mi | 10 |
| 2. Lions Park | — | 11 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Grant Township. Close and well known come first.
36 mi MuseumKansas Cosmosphere and Space Center150K visitors a year
12 mi Zoo & aquariumSedgwick County Zoo
13 mi MuseumExploration Place19 mi Zoo & aquariumTanganyika Wildlife Park
17 mi MuseumKansas Aviation Museum
12 mi MuseumWichita Art MuseumPhoto credits
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center: Patrick Pelletier (Ppelleti (talk)), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sedgwick County Zoo: Patrick Pelletier, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Exploration Place: 04stx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kansas Aviation Museum: David G. Keith, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wichita Art Museum: FUBAR007, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Grant Township
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Grant Township
About 6 of every 100 Grant Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Kansas.
About Grant Township
Township in Kansas, United States
Grant Township is a township in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2000 United States census, it had a population of 3,710.
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- Area
- 36 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,440 ft
Grant Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Grant Township.
| Town | KS rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Township | #8 | A | B | — | A− | A− |
| Darlington Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kechi Township | #98 | C+ | B | — | D | B− |
| Lincoln Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Valley Center Township | #35 | A− | B | — | A− | A− |
Grant Township, Kechi Township and Valley Center Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Darlington Township and Lincoln Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Grant Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Grant Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Grant Township, KS a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Grant Township grades A overall, better than 91% of U.S. towns and #8 of 150 in Kansas. It grades A− for health and A− for schools.
Is Grant Township, KS expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.