Leawood, KS, is synonymous with luxury living in Johnson County. Home to prestigious neighborhoods like Glen Abby, Hallbrook and Highlands Creek, Leawood real estate features elegant estates, custom builds and manicured landscapes.
The area offers easy access to Town Center Plaza, Mission Farms and Park Place, known for upscale shopping, fine dining and entertainment. With proximity to I-435 and 119th Street, homes for sale in Leawood combine a prime location with unmatched amenities.
Whether you’re searching for a gated community or a modern luxury home, Leawood remains one of Kansas City’s most sought-after suburbs.
Where Leawood is
Leawood is in northeast Johnson County, Kansas, on State Line Road, with Kansas City, Missouri on the other side. The Census Bureau estimated its population at 34,093 on July 1, 2025, and the city covers 15.11 square miles of land (2020).
The city is named for Oscar G. Lee. In 1922 he bought land between what are now 79th and 103rd Streets, from State Line Road to Belinder Road. The Kroh brothers followed with a housing development, and Leawood was incorporated on November 30, 1948.
Getting around Leawood
These distances start at Leawood City Hall, 4800 Town Center Drive, and come from OpenStreetMap routing without traffic.
- Downtown Kansas City: about 19 miles and 27 minutes, by Nall Avenue, I-435 and US-69.
- Country Club Plaza: about 11 miles and 23 minutes, by I-435 and Wornall Road.
- Kansas City International Airport terminal: about 37 miles and 48 minutes.
- Corporate Woods: about 1.5 miles and 4 minutes.
Riders book RideKC’s 499 Micro Transit by app or phone and share the trip. The service runs on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. between State Line Road, 47th Street and I-435, which takes in Leawood north of I-435.
Homes in Leawood
The census counts 13,845 housing units in Leawood (ACS 2020-2024). About 84 percent are single-family detached houses. Another 5 percent are attached single-family homes, such as townhouses. Owners live in about 91 percent of the occupied homes.
The median year built is 1989. About 34 percent of homes date from before 1980, 37 percent from 1980 through 1999, and 29 percent from 2000 or later.
Homes get newer from north to south. The median build year is 1957 to 1966 in the northern census tracts and 2000 to 2005 south of about 135th Street.
Current listings are on the Leawood homes for sale page.
Leawood neighborhoods
The City of Leawood publishes a map of homes associations, dated July 2026. The map and the associations’ own pages place several named neighborhoods:
- Hallbrook surrounds Hallbrook Country Club at 11200 Overbrook Road, and Iron Horse surrounds Ironhorse Golf Club, a public course at 15400 Mission Road.
- Leawood Estates reaches from Mission Road to State Line Road, mostly between 95th Street and I-435. Its homes association counts close to 1,500 homes across Leawood and Overland Park.
- Mission Farms sits just north of I-435, where Indian Creek Parkway (106th Street) meets the east side of Mission Road. The land was bought for development in 1999 and ground was broken in 2006. The plan mixes houses, condominiums and apartments with shops and offices.
- Tomahawk Creek names two associations north of 119th Street: Tomahawk Creek Condominiums, west of Tomahawk Creek Parkway and south of 115th Street, and Tomahawk Creek Estates, east of the parkway.
- Leawood Falls lies between Mission Road and State Line Road, south of 135th Street around 138th Street.
Schools in Leawood
Leawood is divided between two public school districts. Blue Valley USD 229 takes in about three quarters of the city’s land. Shawnee Mission USD 512 serves the northern part.
The city lists six public schools inside Leawood. Brookwood Elementary belongs to Shawnee Mission. Leawood Elementary, Mission Trail Elementary, Prairie Star Elementary, Leawood Middle and Prairie Star Middle belong to Blue Valley. The schools assigned to a home can be outside the city.
District and attendance zones go by address and do not follow neighborhood names. Enter an address in the Johnson County AIMS School Locator to see its district and assigned schools. Blue Valley and Shawnee Mission each publish a lookup of their own.
Parks and trails in Leawood
The city’s park system has six parks and one greenway on 492 acres of parkland, with an 8.2-mile trail system.
City Park, at 10601 Lee Boulevard, covers 66 acres. Its grounds hold eleven soccer fields, two baseball fields, six lighted tennis courts, two sand volleyball courts, a half-mile loop trail, an all-inclusive playground and the Leawoof dog park. The Leawood Aquatic Center, also in City Park, has a 50-meter pool of Olympic size. Its season usually runs from the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.
The Tomahawk Creek Trail is a paved path of 4.1 miles between City Park and Tomahawk Park. It follows the creek past three stocked ponds and is part of the county-wide trail system.
Ironwoods Park, at 14701 Mission Road, covers 115 acres. On its grounds are the Prairie Oak Nature Center, the Lodge at Ironwoods, an amphitheater, a 1-acre lake, 2 miles of trails and the one-room Oxford School, which opened in May 1877 as the first school here.
Home values in Leawood
The Census Bureau reports a median value of $658,800 for owner-occupied homes in Leawood (ACS 2020-2024). That figure is an estimate from the American Community Survey. It is not a sale price.
Countywide, the Johnson County Appraiser reported an average appraised home value of $536,000 for 2026.
Each home’s appraised value is printed on its Notice of Appraised Value and posted on the county’s AIMS property lookup. Jennifer can pull the county’s record for a home you are considering, or review pricing for one you own through the home valuation page.
Property taxes in Leawood
Kansas taxes a home on its assessed value, which is 11.5 percent of the appraised value (K.S.A. 79-1439). Multiply the assessed value by the total mill levy and divide by 1,000 to get the tax. The statewide 20-mill school levy is not charged on the first $75,000 of a home’s appraised value (K.S.A. 79-201x).
The total levy at a Leawood address depends on its school district. The 2025 levies:
| Taxing authority | 2025 levy (mills) |
|---|---|
| State of Kansas | 1.5 |
| Johnson County | 17.29 |
| Johnson County parks | 3.023 |
| Johnson County library | 3.817 |
| Johnson County Community College | 7.873 |
| City of Leawood (4.8 of it for bond and interest) | 23.501 |
| Blue Valley Recreation Commission (Blue Valley addresses only) | 2.802 |
| Total, Blue Valley USD 229 | 113.424 |
| Total, Shawnee Mission USD 512 | 107.890 |
Each total also includes the school district’s own levies.
As an example only, take a home appraised at $600,000. Its assessed value is $69,000. At a Shawnee Mission address, 107.890 mills comes to $7,444. The school levy exemption takes off $172.50, which leaves about $7,272 for 2025. At a Blue Valley address the same home would owe about $7,654. Special assessments, where a property has them, are added to the same bill.
The county Appraiser sets values as of January 1 and mails each Notice of Appraised Value on or before March 1. An owner has 30 days from the mailing date to file an informal appeal (K.S.A. 79-1448), through the county’s appeal portal or by mail. The other route is to pay the tax under protest.
The county mails tax bills by November 15. Owners pay in full or pay the first half by December 20, and the second half is due by May 10.
Kansas refunds part of the property tax to eligible owners under three claims: Homestead (K-40H), SAFESR (K-40PT) and SVR (K-40SVR). The Kansas Department of Revenue takes them from January 1 through April 15.
Utilities and trash service
Leawood’s utilities are Evergy for electricity, Kansas Gas Service for natural gas, WaterOne for water and Johnson County Wastewater for sewer.
Trash pickup is not a city service. Homes associations coordinate and contract for it, so ask the association or the seller which hauler serves a home and what it costs.
The city’s list of internet providers includes AT&T, Google Fiber and Spectrum. To see the providers at one address, use the FCC National Broadband Map.
Flood zones and stormwater
About 6 percent of Leawood’s land is in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, and all of that is Zone AE, according to Johnson County’s copy of FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer.
The city refers residents to FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center to compare a property with the 100-year floodplain. Search the address there before you write an offer.
Leawood Public Works runs the city’s stormwater program under a federal NPDES permit. Most projects that disturb more than 400 square feet of ground need a land disturbance permit.
