Garden City vs Holcomb

A side-by-side comparison of Garden City and Holcomb: population, income, housing, and more.

Garden City and Holcomb are places in Kansas. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Garden City has the higher population (27,781 vs 2,582 in Holcomb). Holcomb has the higher median household income ($85,938 vs $72,511 in Garden City). Holcomb has the higher median home value ($206,600 vs $186,200 in Garden City).

Population, income & housing

	Garden City	Holcomb
Population	27,781	2,582
Median age	32.7 yrs	26.7 yrs
Median household income	$72,511	$85,938
Median home value	$186,200	$206,600
Median gross rent	$990	$821
Housing units	10,827	813
Homeownership rate	59.4%	88.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.7%	18.1%
Unemployment rate	4.2%	3.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Garden City	Holcomb
Population	26,647 → 27,781 (+4.3%)	2,188 → 2,582 (+18.0%)
Median household income	$55,987 → $72,511 (+29.5%)	$72,250 → $85,938 (+18.9%)
Median home value	$149,300 → $186,200 (+24.7%)	$146,900 → $206,600 (+40.6%)
Median gross rent	$814 → $990 (+21.6%)	$504 → $821 (+62.9%)

Garden City

Population

26,64727,781

Median household income

$55,987$72,511

Median home value

$149,300$186,200

Median gross rent

$814$990

Holcomb

Population

2,1882,582

Median household income

$72,250$85,938

Median home value

$146,900$206,600

Median gross rent

$504$821

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Garden City	Holcomb
Under 5	7.9%	5.0%
5 to 17	20.1%	36.4%
18 to 24	11.1%	6.4%
25 to 34	14.6%	12.6%
35 to 44	11.4%	15.6%
45 to 54	11.7%	7.6%
55 to 64	10.4%	10.7%
65 to 74	7.7%	4.3%
75 and over	5.0%	1.4%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Garden City	Holcomb
White (non-Hispanic)	34.0%	47.4%
Black or African American	5.6%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.3%
Asian	4.4%	1.5%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.4%
Two or more races	1.2%	2.7%
Hispanic or Latino	54.6%	47.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Garden City	Holcomb
No high school diploma	31.8%	15.7%
High school graduate	22.9%	32.1%
Some college or associate's	26.6%	34.1%
Bachelor's degree	12.1%	12.2%
Graduate or professional degree	6.6%	5.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Garden City	Holcomb
Drove alone	81.5%	83.6%
Carpooled	14.9%	12.3%
Public transit	0.2%	0.0%
Walked	0.7%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.1%	0.0%
Worked from home	2.2%	3.4%
Other means	0.3%	0.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Garden City	Holcomb
1-unit, detached	60.1%	88.4%
1-unit, attached	2.9%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	17.1%	4.3%
5 to 19 units	9.2%	0.5%
20 or more units	3.3%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	7.5%	6.8%

Poverty & households

	Garden City	Holcomb
Poverty rate	11.4%	10.3%
Average household size	2.70	3.54
Mean commute (minutes)	14	16
Median year structure built	1976	1989