Best Places66052, KS Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 66052, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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66052 ranks 6,927th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on fast internet by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 66052

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 66052 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

66052's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%Fast internet
Top 10%A strong job market
Top 10%State infrastructure
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 66052 with other zip codes.

Where 66052 ranks high

  • Internet speedBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • Local economyBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • State infrastructureBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • Crime safetyBetter than 92% of zip codes
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 89% of zip codes

Where 66052 ranks low

  • QuietBetter than only 2% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 25% of zip codes
  • BikingBetter than only 30% of zip codes
  • TransitBetter than only 35% of zip codes
  • Heat safetyBetter than only 35% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 66052

A household needs to earn about $95,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 66052 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $104,559, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$95,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,214
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $380,206 home
Median rent
$953
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,939
Property tax$148
Homeowners insurance$127

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 66052's effective rate of 0.47%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 66052

66052 runs younger than the country.

Median age
38
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
15%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1822%
18 to 3424%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6420%
65 and older16%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 66052.


Who works in 66052, and how

Work in 66052 centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
12%
below the national average
Unemployment
2.3%
below the national average
Job growth
+10.7%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social19%
Retail trade16%
Construction11%
Public administration10%
Manufacturing7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 85%
  • Work from home 12%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in 66052

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across 66052.


What the weather is like in 66052, month by month

66052 sees roughly 93 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January41°29°20°
April70°55°43°
July91°79°68°
October72°57°45°

Flying in and out of 66052

Kansas City International sits about 26 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.7 million passengers in 2025, with 104 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
MCI
Kansas City International, about 26 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
40th-busiest in the US, 104 nonstop destinations
Average drive
38 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 66052

Schools across 66052 average a B−, better than 52% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 66052 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


66052 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 66052 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 66052

Is 66052 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 66052 ranks 6,927th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on fast internet, a strong job market, and state infrastructure, and lowest on noise and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 66052 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $380,206. The overall cost of living runs about 4% below the national average. Set against a $104,559 median income, cost of living beats 85% of zip codes.

Is 66052 safe?

Yes, 66052 is safer than 92% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $184 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 66052. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 66052 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

66052 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 66052: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 66052: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 66052: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 66052: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

66052 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.