City / Suburb · Kansas · Johnson County · SW
Spring Hill
New-Construction. Open-Country. Main-Street.
Drive southwest and Johnson County thins out: subdivisions, then a field, then another field, and then a town — a one-block Main Street of 19th-century storefronts with a grain elevator on the horizon — and wrapped around it, several thousand houses that did not exist when this century started.
The light comes across open ground here with nothing to interrupt it. In the newer cul-de-sacs the saplings are still staked and none of them throw shade on anything yet.
The market clock
Everything else on this page sold in two or three days this spring. Merriam: two. Roeland Park: two. Mission: three. Shawnee: three.
Spring Hill: thirty-six days, on 2.3 months of supply — roughly four times Merriam's.
That is the practical headline. It is the only city in this county where you can tour a house on Saturday, sleep on it, drive the commute yourself on a Tuesday morning, schedule a real inspection without begging for access, and still write an offer that gets accepted. Everywhere else on this list, the transaction is compressed into a weekend.
The price and the stock
$430,000 median at $197.65 a square foot — the lowest price per foot on this page. Median year built 2007, seventeen years newer than the next-newest city here. Overwhelmingly 2000s–2020s subdivision construction: two-stories and ranches, attached garages, basements, lots large enough for a swing set.
Year over year the median moved 0.0% on 35 sales — a large enough sample here to mean something.
New-ish construction carries its own trade-offs, and they are worth naming. The canopy is young; a 2007 subdivision has maybe fifteen more years before its trees are doing real work. Newer sections may still have active construction traffic, mud, and staged materials. Many of these lots were farm ground a generation ago, so look hard at grading, drainage and the sump discharge. And this is an HOA market: dues and covenants vary by subdivision and are not published centrally — ask for them in writing on any house you tour.
The commute is the cost
Spring Hill sits on the far southwest frontier of the metro. Downtown is a long way. The Plaza is a long way. If your office is in the Crossroads, this is the longest daily drive of any city on this page, twice a day, and none of the drive-time fields here are yet measured with live traffic.
So measure it yourself. Drive it at 7:30 on a Tuesday morning before you fall in love. Not on a Sunday. Tuesday.
Taxes: check your county
The city straddles the Johnson–Miami county line, and the two counties publish separate certified levy sheets. The 21.851 mills on this page is the Johnson County portion only. A Miami County parcel carries a different total. Kansas assesses residential property at 11.5% of appraised value. Ask which county your parcel is in, and get the levy in writing.
Schools
Spring Hill is served by Spring Hill USD 230 — its own district, not Blue Valley, not Olathe, not Shawnee Mission. District boundaries do not follow city lines anywhere in this metro, so confirm the assigned attendance area by exact street address rather than by city name.
What is downtown
One block. The Fall Festival has run since 1954 — parade on Webster Street, vendors in City Park, a street dance on Main; the 2026 edition is September 26–27. The Chamber calls Historic Main Street Johnson County's first historic district. There is a coffee shop on it. Everything else — restaurants, bars, most retail — is a drive, generally to Olathe.
The housing and the streets
- Median year built 2007 — the newest housing stock of any city on this page, overwhelmingly 2000s–2020s subdivision construction
- 36 days on market and 2.3 months of supply, against two or three days in the Johnson County cities to the northeast — the widest inspection window in the county
- $197.65 per square foot, the lowest of the cities compared here, generally on larger lots
- A one-block 19th-century Main Street and a fall festival that has run since 1954
What to know before you write an offer
- Spring Hill sits on the far southwest edge of the metro. Drives to downtown, the Plaza and the Crossroads are the longest of any city on this page, and no traffic-aware measurement is published here yet. Drive your actual commute at 7:30 on a Tuesday morning before you write an offer — not on a Sunday.
- Median year built is 2007. Tree canopy in most subdivisions is young: expect saplings and staked trees, little shade on new streets, and roughly fifteen more years before the canopy is meaningful. New sections may still have active construction traffic.
- The city is served by Spring Hill USD 230 — its own district, not Blue Valley, not Olathe, not Shawnee Mission. District boundaries do not follow city lines. Confirm the assigned attendance area by exact street address.
- Restaurants, bars and most retail are a drive away, generally to Olathe. Walk Score publishes no city-level score for Spring Hill and there is no transit service.
- The city straddles the Johnson–Miami county line, and the two counties publish separate levy sheets. The 21.851-mill figure on this page is the JOHNSON COUNTY portion only; a Miami County parcel carries a different total. Get the levy for the specific parcel in writing before closing.
- This is a subdivision market and HOA dues are a real recurring cost that varies by subdivision. They are not published anywhere centrally — ask for the covenants and the dues schedule on any house you tour.