The 10 Richest Neighborhoods In Wichita, KS For 2022


We used science and data to determine which Wichita neighborhoods have the richest people.

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Richest Neighborhoods In Wichita

Welcome to the land of the 1%. Where you'll find lawyers, and doctors, and business executives. And while they probably aren't made of ticky tacky, they are definitely made of money.

These are the wealthiest neighborhoods that Wichita has to offer. Where houses go for over 1.55x the national median and household incomes are 1.74x the national median.

But where exactly in Wichita do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Delano Township where the median income is a cool $95,739.

Here's a look at the top 10 richest neighborhoods in Wichita out of 72 for 2022.

What's the richest neighborhood to live in Wichita for 2022? According to the most recent census data, Delano Township looks to be the richest Wichita neighborhood to live in.

Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $699,180. And that my friend, is more 0s than most of us will see in our bank account for a long, long time -- if we ever get that lucky. Continue on to find where your neighborhood ranks amongst the richest in Wichita. Once you're done, you can look at the bottom of the story for a complete chart of every neighborhood we looked at from richest to poorest.

For more Wichita reading, check out the best neighborhoods in Wichita and the worst neighborhoods in Wichita. Or, for living around Wichita, out the best Wichita suburbs and the worst Wichita suburbs.

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Richst Neighborhoods In Wichita For 2022 By Median Income

Rank Neighborhood Median Household Income<
1 Delano Township $95,739
2 Rockhurst $72,153
3 Crown Heights $69,798
4 Harrison Park Rk $68,378
5 Park Meadows $68,378
6 Sherwood Glen $66,148
7 Pleasant Valley $66,148
8 College Hill $65,231
9 Sleepy Hollow $64,435
10 Brookhollow $62,772
11 Longview $59,710
12 Village $59,375
13 Courtland $59,375
14 Hilltop-Jefferson $57,773
15 Lambsdale $56,771
16 Northwest Big River $55,744
17 Comotara Mainsgate Villa $54,668
18 Indian Hills Riverbend $53,966
19 Crown Heights South $53,636
20 Orchard Park $51,379
21 Meadowlark $51,366
22 Cottonwood Village $51,346
23 Chisholm Creek $50,640
24 Benjamin Hills $49,287
25 North Riverside $48,513
26 South Area $47,537
27 Country Overlook $46,895
28 Riverside $45,546
29 Southwest Village $44,776
30 K-15 $44,097
31 Westlink $43,547
32 Macdonald $41,569
33 Schweiter $40,740
34 Indian Hills $40,408
35 La Placita Park $40,072
36 Southwest $39,696
37 Grandview Heights $39,314
38 Fabrique $38,434
39 South City Community $37,900
40 Mead $37,226
41 East Mt Vernon Na $37,105
42 East Front $36,970
43 Uptown $36,816
44 Northeast Heights $36,164
45 Pueblo $35,903
46 Delano $35,434
47 Eastridge $34,793
48 Sunnyside $34,372
49 Sunflower $34,133
50 Schweiter East $33,949
51 Historic Midtown $32,732
52 Ken-Mar $32,532
53 Orchard Breeze $31,459
54 Stanley-Aley $30,948
55 Mccormick $29,426
56 Jones Park $27,944
57 Central 2000 $26,964
58 Mcadams $26,964
59 Linwood $26,776
60 Kellogg School $26,458
61 South Central Improvemen $26,141
62 Northeast Millair $26,068
63 Planeview United $25,484
64 Oakview $25,379
65 Matlock Heights $24,633
66 Fairmount $24,449
67 Hilltop $24,344
68 Murdock $21,478
69 The Elm $21,478
70 New Salem $21,324
71 Power $20,881
72 North Central $19,294

How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Wichita For 2022

Every city has it's best neighborhoods -- where everyone wants to live -- and the worst neighborhoods -- where no one wants to live. And then you have the wealthiest neighborhoods, where no one can afford to live.

And by no one, we really mean you because there's always someone richer than you.

How do you quantify richer than you? We looked at one simple criterion:

Which neighborhoods have the highest median income?

Using census and extrapolated BLS data, we ranked every neighborhood based on income levels.

We ranked every neighborhood in Wichita by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Delano Township, was named the richest neighborhood in Wichita.

The poorest neighborhood? That would be North Central.

Now a look at how all the neighborhoods in Wichita ranked.

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Editor's Note: We updated this article for 2022. This is our ninth time ranking the richest neighborhoods to live in Wichita.
About Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks.

He believes the key to finding the right place to live comes down to looking at the data, reading about things to do, and, most importantly, checking it out yourself before you move.

If you've been looking for a place to live in the past several years, you've probably stumbled upon his writing already.

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