Prairie Village, KS, combines timeless charm with an unbeatable location. Homes for sale in Prairie Village include updated mid-century designs and modern remodels across neighborhoods like Corinth Hills, Prairie Ridge and Nall Hills.
The community is known for The Village Shops of Prairie Village, the Prairie Village Art Fair, and close proximity to the Country Club Plaza and Downtown Kansas City. Prairie Village real estate is ideal for buyers seeking character, mature landscaping and a close-knit community within Johnson County.
Location and getting around
Prairie Village covers 6.21 square miles of land (2020) in northeast Johnson County, Kansas, and had an estimated 23,008 residents on July 1, 2025. Every side of it meets another city. On the east the boundary is State Line Road, with Kansas City, Missouri, on the other side.
By OpenStreetMap routing with no traffic, City Hall (7700 Mission Road) is about 13 minutes and 5.3 miles from the Country Club Plaza. Downtown Kansas City is about 19 minutes (10 miles) by 75th Street, Roe Avenue and I-35. The Kansas City International Airport terminal is about 41 minutes (30 miles) by Metcalf Avenue, I-635 and I-29.
RideKC has two weekday services here. Route 475 Quivira-75th Street runs along the 75th Street corridor and connects the KU Edwards Campus with 75th and Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. The 499 Micro Transit, a shared ride booked by phone or app from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., serves all of Prairie Village.
Homes and neighborhoods in Prairie Village
J.C. Nichols, who had developed the Country Club Plaza, started construction in 1941 on a planned community of homes and neighborhood shopping centers, and Prairie Village became a city in 1951. Its shopping centers include the Prairie Village Shops and Corinth Square.
In the American Community Survey for 2020-2024, the median year built is 1959. Of the city’s 10,287 housing units, about 45 percent date from the 1950s and about 83 percent from before 1980. About 900 homes, or 9 percent, were built in 2010 or later.
Detached single-family houses make up about 84 percent of the total, and buildings of five or more units about 10 percent. Owners live in about 77 percent of the occupied homes. A home for sale here is usually an older house being resold.
From the county’s parcel records (October 2026):
- Corinth Hills (about 450 homes) is the largest of several Corinth subdivisions near 83rd Street and Mission Road. It is southwest of Harmon Park, north of 83rd Street, running east from Nall Avenue toward Mission Road. Roughly nine of every ten houses are from the 1950s or 1960s.
- Prairie Hills (roughly 650 houses) is between 71st and 75th streets, east of Mission Road. About 470 houses are from the 1950s and about 70 from 2010 or later.
- Ridgewood (142 houses) is between 77th and 79th streets, east of Mission Road. Only two houses were built outside the 1950s.
- Meadowbrook Park has gone up since 2017 next to the county park at 9101 Nall Avenue, north of 95th Street between Nall and Roe avenues. County records list an apartment building, duplexes and single-family houses.
The city lists homes associations for several neighborhoods, Corinth Hills and Prairie Hills included. See Prairie Village homes for sale for what is listed now.
Parks and places in Prairie Village
The city has more than a dozen parks, open daily from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Harmon Park, at 77th Place and Delmar Street, has ten tennis courts, a disc golf course, a skate park and inclusive play equipment. The city pool complex shares the site at 7711 Delmar.
At Santa Fe Trail Park, 7727 Delmar, swales left by wagons on the Santa Fe, Oregon and California trails are still visible, and the site went on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. Weltner Park, at 79th Street and State Line Road, is at Nine Mile Point, where the first wagons on the Santa Fe Trail, William Becknell’s, entered what is now Kansas in 1822.
Johnson County’s Meadowbrook Park, at 9101 Nall Avenue, covers 80 acres and has pickleball courts, a fishing lake and a 10,000 square foot clubhouse.
Schools in Prairie Village
One district, Shawnee Mission (USD 512), covers the entire city. According to the city, nine of the district’s schools serve students living in Prairie Village: Shawnee Mission East High School, Indian Hills Middle School, and seven elementary schools (Belinder, Briarwood, Corinth, Highlands, Prairie, Santa Fe Trail and Tomahawk).
A school is assigned by address, and the attendance lines are not drawn along neighborhood names. Before writing an offer, check the address on the Johnson County AIMS School Locator or the district’s boundary maps.
Home values in Prairie Village
For 2020-2024, the American Community Survey puts the median value of an owner-occupied home in Prairie Village at $435,700. That is a census survey figure, not a sale price.
The average appraised value of a home in the city was $567,661 for 2025, a figure the city publishes for its tax rebate program.
The Johnson County Appraiser values each property as of January 1 and mails the Notice of Appraised Value by March 1. It is also in the county’s AIMS property lookup. Jennifer can pull the county’s record for a home you are considering. To ask about the price of your own, use the home valuation page.
Property taxes in Prairie Village
A Kansas home is taxed 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.
Prairie Village is a single tax unit, so the same 2025 levies applied to every home:
| Taxing authority | 2025 mills |
|---|---|
| State of Kansas | 1.500 |
| Johnson County | 17.290 |
| Johnson County parks and recreation | 3.023 |
| Johnson County Library | 3.817 |
| Johnson County Community College | 7.873 |
| City of Prairie Village | 18.057 |
| Shawnee Mission School District (four levies) | 50.886 |
| Johnson County Consolidated Fire District No. 2 | 10.007 |
| Total | 112.453 |
As an example, a home appraised at $450,000 has an assessed value of $51,750, and at 112.453 mills that is $5,819.44. Kansas does not charge the statewide 20 mill school levy on the first $75,000 of appraised value (K.S.A. 79-201x), which is worth $172.50. The 2025 tax would be about $5,647.
The bill also carries two city special assessments: the trash charge, and the stormwater utility fee of $0.040 a year per square foot of roof and driveway.
Bills are mailed by November 15. Pay in full or pay the first half by December 20; the second half is due May 10. An informal appeal of the appraised value is due within 30 days of the mailing of the notice (K.S.A. 79-1448). Paying under protest at tax time is the other route.
The city has a property tax rebate with $100,000 budgeted for 2026. Owner-occupants within its income limits, in a home appraised no higher than the prior year’s city average, get the city’s portion of their tax back. Kansas has its own refund claims for eligible owners (Homestead, SAFESR and SVR), filed with the Kansas Department of Revenue from January 1 to April 15.
Utilities and trash in Prairie Village
Electricity is from Evergy and natural gas from Kansas Gas Service. WaterOne supplies water, and Johnson County Wastewater handles sewer. Spectrum provides cable. For internet, the FCC National Broadband Map shows the providers at a given address.
For most homes the city contracts the weekly pickup of trash, recycling and yard waste, and the cost appears on the property tax bill. Republic Services has the contract until December 31, 2026. From January 1, 2027 the hauler is GFL Environmental, at about $23 a month, with one pickup day for all three, carts of 65 and 95 gallons, and as many as three bulk items a month.
Six homes associations handle trash on their own: Corinth Downs, Corinth Place Villas, Countryside East, Paddock Court, Town and Country, and Village Park.
Flood zones and stormwater in Prairie Village
FEMA’s Special Flood Hazard Areas take in about 1 percent of the land in Prairie Village, most of it Zone AE, as measured on Johnson County’s copy of FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer (October 2026). Check an address on FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center before making an offer.
The city’s storm system runs to more than 66 miles of pipe and 3,700 drainage structures, paid for by the stormwater utility fee.
An addition, a pool, or any grading larger than a landscape bed needs a drainage permit from the city’s Public Works Department. From April 1 to October 31 each year, the city’s Contain the Rain program, funded by a Johnson County grant, shares the cost of sustainable landscaping projects.
