Goddard Real Estate Information

A growing rural community located in Sedgwick County, Goddard, Kansas, sits about 10 miles west of Wichita in the county on an area of 2.4 square miles. It is home to a population estimated in July 2008 to be nearly 4,000, an increase of nearly 90% since the population was measured at the census in 2000. 

The city was first established in 1883, when E. Wilder bought some farmland on the proposed railway line for the Santa Fe Railway. He then established the town, which ha named after J.F. Goddard, then vice-president and general manager of Santa Fe Railway. The community officially incorporated in 1910.

Residents here had an estimated median annual household income in 2007 of $55,675, up slightly from $50,352 in 2000, and the median value of their homes or condos in 2007 was $123,114, up from $85,700 in 2000. Transportation equipment, education and health care are the industries most common for residents here to be employed, with the nearest hospital about nine miles away in Wichita

The Goddard School District serves the education of children in this town and includes three elementary schools, two intermediate schools, two middle schools and Goddard High School. Points of interest in Goddard include the Goddard Public Library, Charles Means Memorial Park, site of the annual 4th of July Celebration and Easter egg hunt, the Goddard City Pool and the Goddard Community Center. The city celebrates an annual Goddard Fall festival, and within just 10 minutes of the town are nearby Lake Afton Public Observatory, Lake Afton Park and Pawnee Prairie Park.