Roeland Park Today
Gateway to Johnson County
Roeland Park Today
Gateway to JC
The gateway to Johnson County, Roeland Park is a thriving community that boasts a thriving local art scene, popular parks, multimodal transit options, and a variety of housing options. Our community is tight-knit and growing. A new development is underway at the north end of Roe Boulevard – 288 Class A apartment units with a parking garage and restaurant space are currently in progress.
Our residents love being here. Roeland Park received the Leading the Way Award from ETC Institute for our results from our citizen surveys being in the top 10% of all communities surveyed. Our Governing Body cares about helping our residents and shows it by providing grants to those who qualify for property tax assistance, home improvements, home energy audits, block parties and more.
We also invest in public infrastructure and have provided surface treatments or street reconstruction on more than 90% of the streets in Roeland Park in the past 10 years. Our community enjoys summer concert series at R Park, annual Egg Hunt and Halloween Trunk or Treat at the Community Center, and Fireworks at Bishop Miege on July 4th. We are within a ten-minute drive to downtown Kansas City, the Country Club Plaza, world-class health centers at KU and Advent and more. Come for a visit and see what it’s all about.
- Local government has invested in resources such as Project RISE to help start and grow businesses in RP.
- The NEJC Chamber has a network of 320 members who are here to help connect you to resources and a network of other small businesses.
- Our location is ideal – directly adjacent to I-35, 10 minutes from downtown Kansas City, the Country Club Plaza, and world class medical facilities at KU, Advent Health, and Children’s Mercy. Roe Boulevard in RP has a daily traffic count of approximately 20,000 daily vehicles and the median household income of the 66205 area code is $98,475. We’re entry point into Johnson County from I-35 heading west.
- Roeland Park is committed to diversity and will cover the cost of new and existing businesses to join regional diverse chambers such as the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City, The Asian Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City, Mid-America LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and more.
- MARC Housing Data Hub – The Mid-America Regional Council Regional Housing Partnership has collected data from housing across the region and created the Housing Data Hub. This Hub provides interactive maps where users can overlay rental data, housing age, housing stock, etc. Information can be isolated for specific communities, including Roeland Park.
- In 2021, United Community Services published the Johnson County Community Housing Study, an in-depth analysis of current and future needs for affordable, workforce and other housing options to bridge the gap between supply and demand. This information includes an analysis of all communities in Johnson County and an analysis of Roeland Park (starting on page 220 of the report). One component of the report speaks availability of rental units. Since the report was published, the City entered into an agreement with EPC Real Estate to develop 288 new apartment units at The Rocks development at 48th and Roe Boulevard. The developers intend to make several units fully accessible and integrate components of universal design to accommodate all abilities.