Basehor

Basehor is a 21st-century town on a Leavenworth County ridgeline. The subdivisions off 155th and 158th — Falcon Lakes, Grayhawk — are wide curbed streets with sodded yards and young trees still staked against the wind, and the wind is not a figure of speech: there is nothing between these ridges and open farmland to slow it down. The city limits keep moving. The field at the end of a street this year is often a foundation the next.

The housing stock

The ACS median year built is 2004 — the youngest of any place in this dossier by roughly half a century. In practical terms that means PVC rather than clay sewer laterals, modern breaker panels rather than fuses or Federal Pacific, insulated envelopes, drywall instead of plaster, and HVAC with decades of life left. The typical product is a four-bedroom, roughly 2,600-square-foot house with a walkout basement, a two- or three-car garage, and a yard that is large by metro standards.

The trade-offs are the trade-offs of new construction anywhere. The canopy is eleven feet tall and will be for another decade. Lot grading and drainage are young and still settling. Elevations repeat down the block. And if you buy on the edge of a phase, you are buying a construction site for a view until that phase closes out.

The market

Zillow's home-value index reads $445,338, up 4.1% year over year (May 2026). The ACS median owner-occupied value is $349,900 — a gap that is mostly everything built since the census sample. There were 41 homes for sale in May.

We do not publish a monthly median sale price for Basehor, and we would rather explain than pretend. Redfin logged 23 closed sales in April 2026 and 16 in May; the same series printed a year-over-year of −0.3% one month and −13.5% the next while Zillow's smoothed index said up 4%. That is a sample-size artifact. We will print a median when we have a twelve-month one.

The levy

147.324 mills. Against Kansas's 11.5% residential assessment ratio, that is an effective 1.694% of market value — the highest rate on any page in this set, and materially above Overland Park, Leawood and Mission Hills. It is not a scandal; it is arithmetic. Leavenworth County levies 37.324 mills where Johnson County levies 17.290. USD 458 levies 59.592. The library adds 5.468. You are buying a less expensive house and paying a higher rate on it, and on a $450,000 house that is roughly $7,600 a year. Run it through the Ledger before you fall in love with a walkout basement.

Getting around, and where the lines fall

There is no walkable commercial core here — Walk Score publishes no city-level score for Basehor, and the built form is subdivisions, a highway, a library, an elementary school and a convenience store. Every trip is a car trip. Free-flow drive times are 33 minutes to downtown, 37 to Overland Park, 39 to the Plaza and 43 to KCI, all with zero traffic on K-7 and I-70. Drive the route at 5:15pm before you commit to it.

The district is Basehor-Linwood USD 458, in Leavenworth County. School district boundaries in this metro do not follow city lines — confirm the assignment for the specific parcel. Kansas has statewide open enrollment under K.S.A. 72-3123, which makes a seat a right to apply, not a right to attend.