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Housing in Greenleaf

A typical Greenleaf home is worth roughly $82,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$82K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$910
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,261
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Greenleaf?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Greenleaf

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You could afford about
$273,000
Typical Greenleaf home $82K

That covers a typical Greenleaf home, with $191K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$520
Loan $410Tax $90Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $910 a month here, $390 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Kansas typical property tax (1.29% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

76% of Greenleaf households own their home

Half of Greenleaf’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 76%Rent 24%

Kansas: 67% own.

1938
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,261
median property tax bill · KS $2,798

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $910

Renters already here pay a median of $638, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$720
1 bedroom$730
2 bedrooms$910
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,200
24%
of households rent · KS 33%
25
renter households
$638
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Washington County, KS): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Greenleaf in 2025 or in any year since 2002.

Single-family
01 200220052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents+19
New homes+0

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Greenleaf gained 19 residents with no new homes permitted, so the growth came from existing homes. Across Kansas: 1.1 new residents per new home.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
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Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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