Living in Prairie Village
Prairie Village is a city of 23,008 people (Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025) on 6.21 square miles of land in northeast Johnson County, Kansas. City Hall is at 7700 Mission Road.
J.C. Nichols, the developer of the Country Club Plaza, began building Prairie Village in 1941 as a planned community of homes and neighborhood shopping centers, and it became a city in 1951. The Prairie Village Shops and Corinth Square are shopping centers in the city.
Where Prairie Village is and getting around
Prairie Village is surrounded by other cities, and its eastern border, State Line Road, is shared with Kansas City, Missouri. From City Hall, the Country Club Plaza is about 5.3 miles and 13 minutes away. The OpenStreetMap route to downtown Kansas City takes 75th Street, Roe Avenue and I-35, about 10 miles and 19 minutes; the Kansas City International Airport (KCI) terminal is about 30 miles and 41 minutes by Metcalf Avenue, I-635 and I-29. The table of approximate drives from City Hall gives these times, all without traffic.
RideKC’s Route 475 Quivira-75th Street runs weekdays along the 75th Street corridor between the KU Edwards Campus and 75th and Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. RideKC’s 499 Micro Transit, a shared ride booked by app or phone, covers the area between State Line Road, 47th Street and I-435 on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., which takes in all of Prairie Village.
Homes and neighborhoods
Prairie Village has 10,287 housing units (ACS 2020-2024). About 84 percent are single-family detached homes, and about 10 percent are in buildings with five or more units. About 77 percent of occupied homes are owner-occupied.
The median home was built in 1959. About 83 percent were built before 1980, 45 percent in the 1950s alone, and 9 percent, or 900 homes, in 2010 or later. With most of the housing built before 1980, most homes for sale are resales of older houses. An addition, a pool, or grading beyond a landscape bed needs a drainage permit from the city’s Public Works Department.
Johnson County’s parcel records place the city’s named subdivisions and date their houses (read in October 2026):
- Corinth is a group of subdivisions around 83rd Street and Mission Road. Corinth Hills, the largest with about 450 homes, runs north of 83rd Street from Nall Avenue east toward Mission Road, just southwest of Harmon Park; about nine in ten of its houses were built in the 1950s and 1960s. Corinth Meadows and Corinth Estates are east of Mission Road.
- Prairie Hills is east of Mission Road between 71st and 75th streets. About 470 of its roughly 650 houses were built in the 1950s, and about 70 have been built since 2010.
- Ridgewood is east of Mission Road between 77th and 79th streets. All but two of its 142 houses were built in the 1950s.
- Meadowbrook: the Meadowbrook Park subdivision, between Nall Avenue and Roe Avenue north of 95th Street, has been built since 2017 beside the county’s Meadowbrook Park at 9101 Nall Avenue. County records show duplexes, single-family houses and an apartment building there.
Several neighborhoods, including Prairie Hills and Corinth Hills, have homes associations listed by the city. To see what is listed now, search homes for sale in Prairie Village.
Home values
The Census Bureau’s median value of owner-occupied homes in Prairie Village was $435,700 for 2020-2024. That is a survey figure from the American Community Survey, not a sale price. The county’s appraisals give another view: the city’s average appraised home value for 2025 was $567,661, and the Johnson County Appraiser put the countywide average at $536,000 for 2026.
A home’s own appraised value is on its Notice of Appraised Value and on the county’s AIMS property lookup. For a pricing review of a specific home, see the home valuation page.
Property taxes in Prairie Village
Kansas assesses a home at 11.5 percent of its appraised value (K.S.A. 79-1439). The tax is that assessed value times the total mill levy, divided by 1,000. The statewide 20-mill school levy does not apply to the first $75,000 of a home’s appraised value (K.S.A. 79-201x).
All of Prairie Village is in one tax unit, with a 2025 total levy of 112.453 mills. That includes the State of Kansas (1.5 mills), Johnson County (17.29), county parks (3.023), the county library (3.817), Johnson County Community College (7.873), the City of Prairie Village (18.057), the Shawnee Mission School District (50.886 across its four levies) and Johnson County Consolidated Fire District No. 2 (10.007), which serves Prairie Village and seven other cities in northeast Johnson County.
As a worked example, a home appraised at $400,000 is assessed at $46,000. At 112.453 mills that comes to $5,173, less $172.50 for the school levy exemption: about $5,000 for 2025. Two city charges are added to the same bill as special assessments: trash service, and a stormwater utility fee of $0.040 per square foot of roof and driveway a year.
The Johnson County Appraiser values property as of January 1 and mails Notices of Appraised Value on or before March 1. An informal appeal is due 30 days after the notice was mailed (K.S.A. 79-1448), filed through the county’s appeal portal or by mail; the other route is to pay under protest when the tax is paid. Tax bills go out by November 15, the first half or the full amount is due December 20, and the second half by May 10.
For 2026 the city set aside $100,000 for a property tax rebate that refunds the city’s share of the tax to owner-occupants who meet its income limits and whose home is appraised at or below the previous year’s city average. For 2026, applications opened January 13 and had to be delivered in person at City Hall. Kansas also refunds part of the property tax to eligible owners through the Homestead (K-40H), SAFESR (K-40PT) and SVR (K-40SVR) claims, filed with the Kansas Department of Revenue between January 1 and April 15.
School district
The Shawnee Mission School District (USD 512) serves all of Prairie Village. The city lists nine Shawnee Mission schools that serve students who live in Prairie Village: Shawnee Mission East High School, Indian Hills Middle School, and Belinder, Briarwood, Corinth, Highlands, Prairie, Santa Fe Trail and Tomahawk elementary schools.
Assigned schools go by address, and attendance lines do not follow neighborhood names. Check each home on the district’s boundary maps or the Johnson County AIMS School Locator.
Utilities and trash
Electricity comes from Evergy, natural gas from Kansas Gas Service, water from WaterOne and sewer service from Johnson County Wastewater. Spectrum provides cable, and the FCC National Broadband Map shows which internet providers serve a specific address.
The city contracts weekly curbside trash, recycling and yard waste pickup for most homes and bills it with property taxes. Homes in six homes associations (Countryside East, Corinth Downs, Paddock Court, Corinth Place Villas, Town and Country, and Village Park) arrange their own service. Republic Services collects through December 31, 2026. GFL Environmental takes over on January 1, 2027, at about $23 a month, with trash, recycling and yard waste picked up on the same day, 65- and 95-gallon carts, and up to three bulk items a month.
Parks and places
The city has more than a dozen parks, open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
- Harmon Park, 77th Place and Delmar Street: a skate park, a disc golf course, ten tennis courts, inclusive play equipment and the city pool complex at 7711 Delmar, which ran from May 23 to September 7 in 2026.
- Santa Fe Trail Park, 7727 Delmar, next to Harmon Park: wagon swales from the Santa Fe, Oregon and California trails are still visible, and the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
- Weltner Park, at 79th Street and State Line Road, marks Nine Mile Point, where in 1822 William Becknell’s wagons, the first on the Santa Fe Trail, crossed into what became Kansas.
- Meadowbrook Park, 9101 Nall Avenue, run by the Johnson County Parks and Recreation District: 80 acres with a fishing lake, pickleball courts and a 10,000-square-foot clubhouse.
Flood zones and stormwater
About 1 percent of Prairie Village’s land lies in FEMA’s Special Flood Hazard Areas, mostly Zone AE, by Johnson County’s copy of FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer. Search any address on FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center before you make an offer.
The city maintains more than 66 miles of storm pipe and 3,700 drainage structures, paid for by the stormwater utility fee, which is based on each property’s roof and driveway area. The Contain the Rain cost-share program, funded by a Johnson County grant, helps pay for sustainable landscaping projects from April 1 to October 31 each year.
