Garden City, KS Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Garden City, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Garden City sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 235
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $239,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $197
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $192,000 and $299,500

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 235 closed sales in Garden City over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $239,900. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $192,000 and $299,500. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 94% of the Garden City closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 235 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $156 and $229 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Garden City, KS (September 2026)

The median home price in Garden City is $239,900, measured across the 235 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $192,000 and $299,500.

Where Garden City sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Garden City over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $192,000 and $299,500. Among the 12 Kansas markets with a published band, Garden City's middle-half spread ($192,000 to $299,500) ranks 4th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 33rd percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 46 days, across 187 Garden City closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 32 days, across 188 Garden City closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Garden City angle

Garden City's tracked closings over the last 12 months come to 235, with a median sale price of $239,900 and a middle half of sales between $192,000 and $299,500. The width of that spread is close to typical for the markets we track, which makes this a market without statistical surprises: the median describes a credible ordinary sale, the band describes ordinary variation, and a quarter of closings sit beyond each quartile as they always do. The useful discipline in Garden City is therefore not exotic. Match closed sales to the subject on the characteristics that matter, place the result inside the band, and be able to say in one sentence why the property deserves the side of $239,900 you have put it on.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in Kansas: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Kansas homes, and most Kansas estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Kansas one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Garden City address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Garden City, KS
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2025325
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 235
Median sold price: $239,900
Median sold $/sqft: $197 (235 qualifying)
Property mix: 94% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Garden City over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is.