Olathe makes Kansas’s top 10 on 3 lists
Olathe is ranked on 40 lists against the 158 Kansas towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 3 and the top quarter on 15.
The lists Olathe does best on
Each list ranks every KS town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with Olathe marked.
1 spot from the top 10 for library borrowing
Lists where Olathe sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
Olathe lands in the top half on 20 of 26 lists
Each dot is Olathe’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in KS, the right end is last. Areas where Olathe does best come first.
Cooler summers than 91% of Kansas
Not better or worse, just Olathe’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
Olathe out-ranks 4 of its 7 ranked neighbors
Head to head on the lists where both towns are ranked: a point for each list where one town places higher. Tap a town for its own rankings.
Where Olathe lands in every KS ranking
41 lists from Census, school, health, library, crime, climate and land data. Tap any list to see every town on it.
Health
Healthiest#1 Fairway · 98 / 100
#13
F
Lowest obesity#1 Fort Riley · 25%
#17
Fewest smokers#1 Mission Hills · 7%
#12
Most active#1 Fairway · 15%
#27
Fewest uninsured#1 Mission Hills · 4%
#40
Lowest depression#1 Leawood · 17%
#9
Closest to a top hospital#1 Winfield · 0.2 mi
#14 People
Most educated#1 Mission Hills · 87.3%
#19
Youngest#1 Sherlock · 22.5
#67
M
Oldest#1 Monmouth · 54.0
#89
Most residents 65+#1 Minneha · 29.6%
#117
Most kids#1 Sherlock · 45.8%
#58 
Libraries
Most-used libraries#1 Girard · 20.0 per resident
#41
Most library borrowing#1 Hesston · 20.9 per resident
#11
Best libraries for kids#1 Hesston · 40.7 per child
#10 Housing
L Vacation-home towns#1 Lincoln · 11.7% #60
Most new homes#1 Maize · 31.5 per 1,000
#17
Fastest-rising home prices#1 Garnett · +85.9%
#53
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Edwardsville · 15.1 per home
#22 Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Winfield · 34.9%
#27
Most trails#1 Iola · 2.4 mi / sq mi
#53
Most walkable#1 Roeland Park · 169 / sq mi
#42 
Safety
Safest#1 Ulysses · 5.6
#24 Getting around
Shortest commute#1 Norton · 7.4 min
#91 
The number on the right is Olathe’s spot. All of Kansas’s rankings, with the map → · National lists and other states: all rankings.
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- 2,500+ residents. Census estimates for smaller towns carry margins of error too wide to rank fairly, so they sit out every KS list.
- One town, one row. A city that is both a city and a town in Census data, or a village inside a town, is counted once.
- Ties share a rank. Towns on one weather station, one school district or one CDC estimate share a figure, so they share a spot (T).
- No “worst” lists. Lists rank toward the good end, and share cards are made only for the top half. Age, snow and the like are character, not grades.
U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey 5-year, 2010 and 2020 censuses, Building Permits Survey), U.S. Department of Education, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CDC PLACES, Medicare Care Compare, IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FHFA House Price Index, NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. Each list explains its own method.