Mission WoodsKS
The town has 200 residents and lies in Kansas.
Is Mission Woods a good place to live?
88% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Mission Woods, above both Kansas’ towns (29%) and U.S. towns (29%). No town among the 152 in Kansas we compare has a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Mission Woods. Mission Woods has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
What makes Mission Woods stand out
Where Mission Woods beats most towns.
200 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Arrowhead Stadium and 36 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mission Woods. Close and well known come first.
Big draw7 mi Stadium & arenaArrowhead Stadium
7 mi Stadium & arenaKauffman Stadium
11 mi Park & preserveSubTropolis
5 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Center
2 mi MuseumThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
6 mi Stadium & arenaCPKC StadiumPhoto credits
Arrowhead Stadium: Ichabod, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kauffman Stadium: Mysteryman28, Public domain · SubTropolis: ErgoSum88, Public domain · T-Mobile Center: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: User:Charvex, Public domain · CPKC Stadium: elisfkc2, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Moving to Mission Woods: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mission Woods, 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 Mission Woods.
A larger share of households in Mission Woods live in a home they own than in the typical Kansas or U.S. town
The typical Mission Woods home is worth about $917,000, up 6.1% in a year, 4 times the Kansas typical home.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The median household income in Mission Woods is higher than in most of Kansas or the rest of the country
Half of commuters travel less than 7 miles. Mission Woods’ average commute is 16 minutes. Jobs based locally fell to 242 in 2023, 62 fewer than in 2013. The top destinations are Kansas City (31%), Kansas City (18%) and Overland Park (16%).
| Mission Woods | Kansas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $164,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 16 minutes | 20 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Low risk in Mission Woods, with inland flooding at the top
47% of Mission Woods’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 20%. On expected storm and flood damage, Mission Woods sits below 63% of U.S. communities. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Mission Woods once, in 2002.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
How healthy Mission Woods is
Only 2 of the 151 Kansas towns we compare have a lower share of adults who report frequent mental distress than Mission Woods. This Kansas town does better than the Kansas average on 23 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 2. In Mission Woods, nearly one in ten adults smoke cigarettes.
| Mission Woods | Kansas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 17% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 31% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.1% | 15% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 22% | 23% |
| What stands out | Mission Woods | KS |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 3.2% | 11.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.3% | 13% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.7% | 8.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Mission Woods
Colleges nearby
21 within 15 miles of the center of Mission Woods
About 2 of every 100 Mission Woods residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Kansas.
Every workday, about 242 people come to Mission Woods for work
Where Mission Woods’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Mission Woods
City in Kansas, United States
Mission Woods is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. In the 2020 census, the population of the city was 203.
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- Area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 906 ft
- Area code
- 913
Questions about Mission Woods
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mission Woods, KS a good place to live?
Mission Woods has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.