Great Bend vs Pawnee Rock

A side-by-side comparison of Great Bend and Pawnee Rock: population, income, housing, and more.

Great Bend and Pawnee Rock are places in Kansas. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Great Bend has the higher population (14,596 vs 293 in Pawnee Rock). Great Bend has the higher median household income ($53,323 vs $47,188 in Pawnee Rock). Great Bend has the higher median home value ($118,700 vs $63,500 in Pawnee Rock).

Population, income & housing

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
Population	14,596	293
Median age	37.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
Median household income	$53,323	$47,188
Median home value	$118,700	$63,500
Median gross rent	$744	$592
Housing units	7,198	137
Homeownership rate	57.3%	82.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.9%	5.6%
Unemployment rate	3.2%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
Population	15,358 → 14,596 (-5.0%)	310 → 293 (-5.5%)
Median household income	$47,574 → $53,323 (+12.1%)	$48,125 → $47,188 (-1.9%)
Median home value	$95,800 → $118,700 (+23.9%)	$36,300 → $63,500 (+74.9%)
Median gross rent	$655 → $744 (+13.6%)	$755 → $592 (-21.6%)

Great Bend

Population

15,35814,596

Median household income

$47,574$53,323

Median home value

$95,800$118,700

Median gross rent

$655$744

Pawnee Rock

Population

310293

Median household income

$48,125$47,188

Median home value

$36,300$63,500

Median gross rent

$755$592

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
Under 5	7.3%	5.1%
5 to 17	18.0%	16.7%
18 to 24	7.5%	10.9%
25 to 34	14.7%	14.0%
35 to 44	11.8%	7.5%
45 to 54	9.1%	11.9%
55 to 64	13.5%	14.3%
65 to 74	8.9%	15.7%
75 and over	9.3%	3.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
White (non-Hispanic)	70.1%	74.4%
Black or African American	0.7%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.0%
Asian	0.5%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.1%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.4%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	25.0%	17.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
No high school diploma	14.3%	9.6%
High school graduate	26.7%	51.3%
Some college or associate's	38.0%	33.5%
Bachelor's degree	16.6%	3.6%
Graduate or professional degree	4.3%	2.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
Drove alone	81.5%	71.8%
Carpooled	8.0%	0.9%
Public transit	0.1%	0.0%
Walked	3.6%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.3%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.7%	14.5%
Other means	0.7%	12.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
1-unit, detached	71.6%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	2.6%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	9.4%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	3.5%	0.0%
20 or more units	5.2%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	7.7%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Great Bend	Pawnee Rock
Poverty rate	17.0%	28.3%
Average household size	2.38	2.55
Mean commute (minutes)	14	19
Median year structure built	1959	1938