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Bison city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Bison city is a Census city of 141 people across 0.26 square miles of land, in Rush County. Median household income is $65,822, 96.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Bison
What Bison is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.26 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land532 plus or minus 257
- County holding the largest share of its areaRush County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
How many people live in Bison
- Population141 plus or minus 68
- Median age60.0 plus or minus 46.3
- Population under 1812 plus or minus 16
- Share under 188.5 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Population 65 and over33 plus or minus 18
- Share 65 and over23.4 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Households87 plus or minus 49
- Family households62 plus or minus 45
- Share of households that are families71.3 percent plus or minus 32.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
Income and work in Bison
- Median household income$65,822
- Per capita income$36,723
- Civilian labor force87 plus or minus 53
- Employed86 plus or minus 53
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate1.1 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Adults 25 and over120 plus or minus 56
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.0 percent plus or minus 61.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.8 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.7 percent plus or minus 9.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
Housing in Bison
- Housing units117 plus or minus 52
- Occupied units87 plus or minus 49
- Vacant units30 plus or minus 18
- Vacancy rate25.6 percent plus or minus 10.3
- Owner occupied84 plus or minus 48
- Renter occupied3 plus or minus 3
- Ownership rate96.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$52,700
- Single family units117 plus or minus 52
- Share single family100.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
How Bison gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute86 plus or minus 53
- Commuting under 15 minutes50 plus or minus 41
- Share commuting under 15 minutes58.1 percent plus or minus 31.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more33 plus or minus 34
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.4 percent plus or minus 31.6
- Drove alone96.5 percent
- Carpooled1.2 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.3 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rush County, not Bison
Rush County context, not Bison figures
These are Rush County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bison measurements.
- Establishments in Rush County98
- Employment at those establishments, Rush County851
- Covered employment, Rush County1,073
- Average annual pay, Rush County$44,311
- Average weekly wage, Rush County$852
- Housing units permitted, Rush County2
- Of those, single family, Rush County2
- County product, 2024, Rush County$195,569,000
- County product change over the prior year, Rush County-7.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Rush County$44,787
Every figure in this section is published for Rush County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bison. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Bison questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bison, Kansas?
141, in 87 households. Bison city covers 0.26 square miles of land, which is 532 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bison in?
Rush County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Bison?
$65,822. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $52,700. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Bison figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Rush County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Bison.
Is zoning published for Bison?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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