Section 8 Housing in Kansas
6,550 active Housing Choice Vouchers across 4 markets. Rent limits, housing authorities, waitlist status, and voucher rights for every metro in Kansas.
Can a landlord refuse Section 8 in Kansas?
Kansas limits local voucher-acceptance ordinances. That does not establish that a particular refusal in Kansas is lawful: federal fair-housing duties and property funding or program requirements may still apply. Check the property with a fair-housing agency or legal aid.
No statewide source-of-income protection for housing vouchers. PRRAC Appendix B (March 2026).
Informational only, not legal advice. Laws change, so verify current status before acting on a rejection or making a leasing decision.
Landlord and investor tools for Kansas
RentalCalcsFree calculators and guides from RentalCalcs, built by the VoucherMatch team, for landlords deciding whether to accept vouchers.
- Section 8 rent analyzerHUD rent benchmarks and modeled comparisons for Kansas ZIP codes. Confirm adopted amounts with the agency.
- Compare HUD benchmarks with market rent in KansasExplore modeled ZIP comparisons; these do not establish an approved rent or agency payment.
- Average rent in KansasMarket rent versus HUD fair market rent by city and bedroom count.
- How Section 8 rent is calculatedFair market rent, payment standards and rent reasonableness, step by step.
- Section 8 landlord math for 2026What the payment standard changes mean for cash flow this year.
All Section 8 markets in Kansas
Sorted by active voucher count. Each metro page has HUD Fair Market Rent by bedroom, the housing authorities that administer vouchers there, and waitlist status.
Section 8 by county in Kansas
County pages show the local voucher count, housing authorities, and metro rollup. Useful when you are looking at a specific address.
- Sedgwick County3,479 vouchers
- Johnson County1,994 vouchers
- Wyandotte County1,810 vouchers
- Shawnee County1,385 vouchers
- Crawford County939 vouchers
- Douglas County882 vouchers
- Riley County719 vouchers
- Cowley County699 vouchers
- Saline County577 vouchers
- Ford County539 vouchers
- Franklin County506 vouchers
- Leavenworth County489 vouchers
- Graham County204 vouchers
- Barton County196 vouchers
- Brown County181 vouchers
- Atchison County137 vouchers
- Harvey County85 vouchers
- Ellis County82 vouchers
- Neosho County25 vouchers
- Allen County
- Anderson County
- Barber County
- Bourbon County
- Butler County
- Chase County
- Chautauqua County
- Cherokee County
- Cheyenne County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Cloud County
- Coffey County
- Comanche County
- Decatur County
- Dickinson County
- Doniphan County
- Edwards County
- Elk County
- Ellsworth County
- Finney County
- Geary County
- Gove County
- Grant County
- Gray County
- Greeley County
- Greenwood County
- Hamilton County
- Harper County
- Haskell County
- Hodgeman County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Jewell County
- Kearny County
- Kingman County
- Kiowa County
- Labette County
- Lane County
- Lincoln County
- Linn County
- Logan County
- Lyon County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- McPherson County
- Meade County
- Miami County
- Mitchell County
- Montgomery County
- Morris County
- Morton County
- Nemaha County
- Ness County
- Norton County
- Osage County
- Osborne County
- Ottawa County
- Pawnee County
- Phillips County
- Pottawatomie County
- Pratt County
- Rawlins County
- Reno County
- Republic County
- Rice County
- Rooks County
- Rush County
- Russell County
- Scott County
- Seward County
- Sheridan County
- Sherman County
- Smith County
- Stafford County
- Stanton County
- Stevens County
- Sumner County
- Thomas County
- Trego County
- Wabaunsee County
- Wallace County
- Washington County
- Wichita County
- Wilson County
- Woodson County
Section 8 in Kansas: common questions
- Can a landlord refuse Section 8 in Kansas?
- Kansas limits local voucher-acceptance ordinances. That does not establish that a particular refusal in Kansas is lawful: federal fair-housing duties and property funding or program requirements may still apply. Check the property with a fair-housing agency or legal aid.
- How many Section 8 vouchers are there in Kansas?
- HUD data shows about 6,550 Housing Choice Vouchers across the 4 Kansas markets we track, administered by 102 housing authorities statewide.
- How do I apply for Section 8 in Kansas?
- You apply to a local housing authority, not to the state or to HUD. Each of Kansas's housing authorities runs its own waitlist and opens it on its own schedule, and applying is always free. Pick your metro or county on this page to see the housing authorities that serve it and their current waitlist status.
Find Section 8 apartments in Kansas
VoucherMatch connects voucher holders with landlords who accept Section 8, and it is free for renters. The administering housing authority must approve the actual unit, rent and household assistance calculation.