Lenexa, KS, offers a mix of suburban comfort and new development. Neighborhoods like Colony Woods, Canyon Creek and Falcon Valley are favorites among homebuyers looking for space and convenience.
Lenexa real estate continues to grow around Lenexa City Center, home to local events and the Lenexa Public Market, with Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park to the east on 87th Street Parkway. With highway access to K-10 and I-435, homes for sale in Lenexa attract buyers looking for modern construction, strong resale value and easy commuting throughout the Kansas City metro.
Location and highways in Lenexa
Lenexa is in Johnson County, Kansas, and shares borders with Shawnee, Overland Park, Olathe and De Soto. Its land area is 34.1 square miles (2025), and the U.S. Census Bureau estimated 60,506 residents on July 1, 2025, compared with 57,413 in 2020.
City Hall is in Lenexa City Center, at 17101 W. 87th Street Parkway. The City places the district near where I-435, I-35, US-69, K-10 and K-7 intersect.
From City Hall it is about 16 miles and 25 minutes to the Power & Light District in downtown Kansas City, east on 87th Street Parkway and then on I-35. The airport run is I-435 nearly the whole way: about 34 miles and 40 minutes to the Kansas City International Airport terminal.
Those are OpenStreetMap routing figures from October 2026 with no traffic in them, so test a commute at the hour you would drive it.
Old Town and Lenexa City Center
Lenexa began in 1869, when the civil engineer Octave Chanute laid out a town where Santa Fe Trail Drive runs today. That original site is Old Town Lenexa. The City counts upwards of 40 trains a day on the BNSF line that runs through it.
Lenexa City Center covers 200 acres where 87th Street Parkway meets Renner Boulevard. Shops, offices, hotels and homes share the district with City Hall. Its civic campus opened in 2017 with City Hall, the Lenexa Rec Center and the Lenexa Public Market, a food hall. A seasonal farmers market was added in 2018.
In 2019 two more buildings opened in the district: the Lenexa City Center branch of the Johnson County Library and the aquatic center of the Shawnee Mission School District.
Housing and neighborhoods in Lenexa
Lenexa has 25,751 homes in the American Community Survey’s 2020-2024 estimates. Single-family detached houses are about 56% of them and attached houses such as townhomes about 8%. Buildings of five or more units hold about 31% of the homes. Owners live in about 57% of the occupied homes.
About 40% of homes date from 1970 through 1989 and about 40% from 2000 or later. About 8% predate 1970, and the median year built is 1992.
The City keeps a list of homeowners associations, with a location and a home count for each (2026). Associations appear on it only if they have sent the City their details, so some are missing. From that list:
- Falcon Ridge, at Prairie Star Parkway and Woodland Drive in western Lenexa, has 527 homes beside Falcon Ridge Golf Club, a private club at 20200 Prairie Star Parkway.
- Canyon Creek, in far western Lenexa, is more than one subdivision. The list has Canyon Creek at Canyon Creek Boulevard and 99th Street with 217 homes, and Canyon Creek Highlands at Prairie Star Parkway and McCormack Street with 227.
- Greystone Estates appears as four associations: Greystone Estates and its East, South and West counterparts, with 592 homes in all. The South association lies between Rosehill Road and Pflumm Road, from 83rd Street to 87th Street Parkway.
Silverleaf occupies the northeast corner of 95th Street and Monticello Road. The City Council approved its plan in May 2020: 96 homes on 35 acres, made up of 46 detached houses and 50 paired villas.
The Lenexa home search shows current Heartland MLS listings.
School districts in Lenexa
A Lenexa address is in one of three school districts. The Shawnee Mission School District (USD 512) is mostly in the east of the city. Much of the west and south is in Olathe Public Schools (USD 233), and De Soto USD 232 is at the far west.
A home’s schools are set by its address, and the district lines follow neither the city limits nor subdivision names. The Johnson County school locator returns the district and schools for any address in the county.
In the Olathe Public Schools part of Lenexa, new attendance boundaries for the 2027-28 school year are planned by January 2027. Confirm an assignment in that district on its boundaries page before relying on it.
Home values in Lenexa
Owner-occupied homes in Lenexa had a median value of $394,900 in the ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates. The survey’s margin of error on that figure is about $9,500. Owners report the value themselves in the survey, which makes it a different thing from a sale price or the county’s appraisal.
Each January 1 the Johnson County Appraiser sets an appraised value for every home. Look up any property in the county’s Land Records search to see it, or Jennifer can pull the county’s record for a home you are considering.
If you own in Lenexa and want a market estimate, the home valuation page is the place to start.
Property taxes in Lenexa
Kansas law sets a home’s assessed value at 11.5% of its 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. Each mill costs $1 per $1,000 of assessed value.
A Lenexa home in the Shawnee Mission School District carried these levies for 2025:
| Levied by | Mills, 2025 |
|---|---|
| State of Kansas | 1.500 |
| Johnson County | 17.290 |
| Johnson County Park and Recreation District | 3.023 |
| Johnson County Library | 3.817 |
| Johnson County Community College | 7.873 |
| City of Lenexa | 26.234 |
| Shawnee Mission School District (USD 512) | 50.886 |
| Total | 110.623 |
Outside the Shawnee Mission district the 2025 total was higher. For Lenexa addresses in Olathe Public Schools it was 121.685 or 121.720 mills, and for those in De Soto USD 232 it was 121.814. Cemetery district levies account for the small differences.
The 20-mill statewide school levy skips the first $75,000 of a home’s appraised value (K.S.A. 79-201x). For 2025 the county lists that as a school general credit of $172.50.
As an example, a home appraised at $450,000 has an assessed value of $51,750. In the Shawnee Mission district, 110.623 mills comes to $5,724.74, or about $5,552 after the credit. For the same home at an Olathe Public Schools address in Lenexa, 121.720 mills works out to about $6,127. Both figures are before special assessments.
The Appraiser’s notices of value go in the mail on or before March 1, and the appeal window is 30 days from the mailing date. Paying under protest when the tax is due is the other option. Statements are sent out in mid-November, with half due December 20 and half May 10.
Utilities and trash in Lenexa
On the City of Lenexa’s utility list, electricity is Evergy, water is WaterOne and sewer is Johnson County Wastewater. Natural gas is Kansas Gas Service at some addresses and Atmos Energy at others. For phone, cable and internet the list has AT&T, EverFast Fiber Networks, Google Fiber and Spectrum.
Johnson County’s service-area maps (October 2026) show City of Olathe water or sewer serving some parts of Lenexa. The county’s Location Services tool names the providers for a single address.
Lenexa has no city trash service. The City licenses nine private haulers (2026), and a resident chooses one unless the homeowners association contracts for the neighborhood. Each licensed hauler must provide trash pickup at least once a week, unlimited recycling, yard waste pickup every week from March through November and once a month in winter, and one bulky-item pickup each year.
Parks and trails in Lenexa
Lenexa’s city park system has more than 30 parks and more than 45 miles of trails (2026). Lake Lenexa, 35 acres, is inside the 231-acre Black Hoof Park at 9053 Monticello Road. The Rolling Magic Skate Park is in Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park.
Shawnee Mission Park is across the city line in Shawnee, just north of Lenexa on Renner Road. Its 120-acre lake, swimming beach, marina and Theatre in the Park are run by the Johnson County Park and Recreation District.
Flood zones and stormwater in Lenexa
FEMA’s flood maps in Lenexa trace the creeks and their tributaries. Mill Creek, Little Mill Creek, Clear Creek, Cedar Creek, Coon Creek, Turkey Creek and the North Branch of Indian Creek are among them. For a home in a flood hazard area, lenders require flood insurance on a federally backed loan, as the City points out.
FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center shows the zone for any address, and it is worth a look before an offer. Lenexa’s stormwater engineer is another source for the flood zone, the base flood elevation and information on past flooding. For buildings put up or substantially improved in the floodplain since January 2010, City Hall has the FEMA elevation certificate on file.
Lenexa has charged a stormwater utility fee since 2000. The fee is billed as a special assessment on the Johnson County property tax statement, on top of the mill levy.
