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Insurance agencies in the Garden City, KS area
How the Garden City, KS area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 18 out of 100: Low
Ranked #502 of 537 scored small-town markets
#9 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Kansas
- Listings
- 28
- 9 chain locations (32%)
- Official establishments
- 20
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $24M
- On vehicle insurance · $1,816 a household
- Spending per listing
- $858K
- 32% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 21.2
- 36% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 37,505
- −2.1% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for insurance agencies in the Garden City area is 18 (low), #502 of 537 scored small-town markets and #9 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Kansas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 28 insurance agencies in the Garden City area. Chain locations make up 32% of them, against 21% across the U.S. That comes to 21.2 for every 10,000 households, 36% above the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in the Garden City area comes to about $24M a year: $1,816 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. That is about $858K of household spending for each agency on map listings, 32% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Garden City area was 20 in 2023. That is one for every 661 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Garden City area declined 2.1%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Garden City area compares
The same measures for Kansas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Garden City area | Kansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 21.2 | 21.8 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $858K | $798K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 661 | 603 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −3.0% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.1% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $1,816 | $1,741 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $73,009 | $74,275 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 18 | 15 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 20
- Employees, 2023
- 84
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 289 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 19The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Garden City area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Garden City area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 37,505−2.1% since 2020
- Households
- 13,229
- Median age
- 33.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,302 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 29
- Median household income
- $73,009
- Average household income
- $91,638
- Median home value
- $201,400
- Jobs located here
- 19,852
- Daytime population
- 39,125Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Kansas market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Kansas for insurance agencies, numbered among those based in Kansas, with the Garden City area marked.
Top small-town markets in Kansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ottawa, KS | 51 | 19 | 18.3 | $1.1M | +1.1% | #260 of 537 |
| 2Pittsburg, KS | 28 | 31 | 19.6 | $860K | +0.1% | #446 of 537 |
| 3McPherson, KS | 23 | 24 | 19.7 | $946K | −0.4% | #475 of 537 |
| 4Dodge City, KS | 20 | 25 | 21.2 | $866K | −0.6% | #486 of 537 |
| 5Arkansas City-Winfield, KS | 20 | 30 | 22.4 | $785K | −0.4% | #488 of 537 |
| 6Hays, KS | 20 | 38 | 31.0 | $614K | +0.4% | #491 of 537 |
| 7Emporia, KS | 19 | 30 | 20.5 | $838K | +0.4% | #495 of 537 |
| 8Hutchinson, KS | 19 | 55 | 21.5 | $820K | −0.6% | #497 of 537 |
| 9Garden City, KS | 18 | 28 | 21.2 | $858K | −2.1% | #502 of 537 |
| 10Atchison, KS | 14 | 15 | 26.2 | $680K | −0.9% | #520 of 537 |
Other business types in the Garden City area
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in the Garden City, KS area?
There are 28 insurance agencies on map listings in the Garden City area as of September 2026. 9 of them (32%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 20 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in the Garden City, KS area spend on vehicle insurance?
About $24M a year, or $1,816 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $858K per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 13,229 households in the Garden City area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Garden City, KS area compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
The Garden City area has 21.2 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 36% above the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $858K, 32% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the national ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, the Garden City area would have about 19, against 28 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 661 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is the Garden City, KS area growing?
Population estimates put the Garden City area at 37,505 people in 2025, down 2.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 13,229 households. The median household income in the Garden City area is $73,009 a year, 10% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Garden City area scores 18 for insurance agencies (low), #502 of 537 scored small-town markets.
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