Johnson County · KS
Leawood, KS
Founded 1922 · 13.6 miles from downtown Kansas City · population 33,809
The market, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 4 days. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 55% closed at or above the original list price, which is the better measure of how much room a buyer actually has.
Aggregated from Heartland MLS closed sales, twelve months to July 2026. Individual sale prices are not shown - Kansas and Missouri are non-disclosure states and MLS rules do not permit their public display. Ask for the full report if you need them.
How it came to befounded 1922 · where the name comes from · 5 dated events
Oscar G. Lee, a retired Oklahoma police officer, arrived in 1922 and bought farmland running roughly between what are now 79th and 103rd Streets and State Line and Belinder Roads. That purchase is the foundation of present-day Leawood. The city took shape as a municipality after the Kroh Brothers began a housing development on the land. source
The name. From 'Lee's wood' - Oscar G. Lee's surname combined with the wooded character of the site he bought. source
Incorporated November 30, 1948 as a city of the third class, with a population then under 2,000. source
- 1922Oscar G. Lee buys the farmland between roughly 79th and 103rd Streets and State Line and Belinder Roads. source
- 1948The Kroh Brothers begin a housing development on Lee's land, and Leawood incorporates as a third-class city on November 30 with fewer than 2,000 residents. source
- 1996Town Center Plaza opens at 119th and Nall, anchoring the city's commercial core; the adjacent AMC Town Center 20 theater opened December 19, 1997. source
- 2003The 1877 Oxford School building is moved from its original site at 135th (Santa Fe) and Mission Road to Ironwoods Park, where it is preserved as the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse. source
- 2011AMC Theatres announces it will move its world headquarters from downtown Kansas City to a new building in the Park Place development in Leawood. source 1 source 2
The housing stockmedian built 1988
The median home sold here was built in 1988. Most of what sells was built between 1956 and 2014. That closely matches the Census figure of 1989 for all housing, so sales are broadly representative of the stock. 76% of sales included finished basement space beyond the above-grade footprint - which matters here, because square footage quoted above grade can understate a house considerably.
Census records the mix as 84.0% single-family detached, 4.7% single-family attached, 11.1% in multi-unit structures. Owner-occupancy of 91.0% is the highest of the seven cities in this group., with 91.0% owner-occupied. source
By property type, sales broke down as Single Family (484), Patio/Villa (73), Townhouse (38), Condo/Loft (35).
What's hereIronwoods Park, Historic Oxford Schoolhouse and more
AMC Entertainment's world headquarters is in Leawood - a 133,000-square-foot building at 11500 Ash Street in the Park Place mixed-use development, announced in 2011. source 1 source 2
Town Center Plaza, an open-air shopping center at 119th and Nall, opened in 1996. source
- Ironwoods Park
- 115 acres at 147th Street and Mission Road, containing the Prairie Oak Nature Center, The Lodge at Ironwoods, Camp Ironwoods cabins, a challenge course, an amphitheatre, a 1-acre lake and about 2 miles of hike/bike trail. source
- Historic Oxford Schoolhouse
- One of the oldest schoolhouses in Kansas, in use as a school from 1877 to 1955. Moved in 2003 from 135th (Santa Fe) and Mission Road to Ironwoods Park. source
- Leawood City Park
- 66 acres at 10601 Lee Boulevard, in the older northern half of the city. source
- Brook Beatty Park
- 8646 Lee Boulevard. source
- Town Center Plaza
- Open-air shopping center at 119th and Nall, opened 1996. source
Neighborhoods with their own market data3 with enough sales to report
3 subdivisions in Leawood had enough closed sales in the last twelve months to report on individually.
| Subdivision | Sold | Median price | $/sq ft | Days | Built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leawood | 76 | $762,500 | $425 | 3 | 1958 |
| Leawood Estates | 70 | $771,387 | $343 | 7 | 1959 |
| Leawood South | 40 | $609,950 | $259 | 5 | 1977 |
Practical detailschool district · highways and transit · 1 employers
- Schools
- Shawnee Mission School District (USD 512) and Blue Valley USD 229. Boundaries do not follow city limits. Shawnee Mission USD 512 lists Leawood among the 14 cities inside its boundaries, and Blue Valley USD 229 - a 91-square-mile district formed in 1965 from the Stilwell, Stanley and Oxford districts - also includes sections of Leawood. Because Leawood is long and narrow, the north end and the south end are generally in different districts; check the address. Confirm the assigned school for any specific address before you rely on it. source
- Getting around
- State Line Road forms the eastern city limit and is the direct route to the Country Club Plaza and downtown Kansas City. Interstate 435 crosses the city near 103rd Street; US-69 runs north-south just to the west; Nall Avenue and Mission Road are the main internal north-south arterials, and 119th and 135th Streets the main east-west ones. source
- Employers located here
- AMC Entertainment / AMC Theaters. Listed as present in the city, which is not a statement about hiring.
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Thinking about buying or selling here?
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