# Where to Buy a Business in Kansas

Buyable means an establishment with five to ninety-nine employees in the 36 trades this site covers, counted from SBA 7(a) FOIA loan-level dataset (as of June 30, 2026) and the Census establishment file.

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/states/kansas
Last checked: 2026-09-23

## The Opportunity

- Buyable businesses: 10,949 of 20,615 establishments in the covered trades
- Buyable per 100,000 residents: 368.6
- Share of the national buyable market: 0.9%
- Rank among the guided states: 33
- SBA change-of-ownership loans: 392 since FY2020, 63 of them in FY2025
- Median loan: $554,250
- Population: 2,970,606

## The Deepest Counties in Kansas

Nobody searches a state; they search a metro they can drive across. These hold the most buyable targets in the covered trades, each with its share of the state's.

- Johnson: 2,596 buyable (23.7% of the state's)
- Sedgwick: 2,055 buyable (18.8% of the state's)
- Shawnee: 599 buyable (5.5% of the state's)
- Douglas: 436 buyable (4% of the state's)
- Wyandotte: 381 buyable (3.5% of the state's)
- Saline: 183 buyable (1.7% of the state's)
- Reno: 176 buyable (1.6% of the state's)
- Riley: 171 buyable (1.6% of the state's)
- Leavenworth: 160 buyable (1.5% of the state's)
- Butler: 157 buyable (1.4% of the state's)

## What Trades Run Deepest in Kansas

- Limited-Service Restaurants (NAICS 722513): 1,872 buyable. https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-restaurant
- Full-Service Restaurants (NAICS 722511): 1,552 buyable. https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-restaurant
- Offices of Dentists (NAICS 621210): 728 buyable. https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-dental-practice
- Gasoline Stations with Convenience Stores (NAICS 447110): 639 buyable. https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-convenience-store
- Insurance Agencies and Brokerages (NAICS 524210): 442 buyable. https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-an-insurance-agency
- Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars (NAICS 722515): 424 buyable. https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-restaurant

## Before You Close in Kansas

The tax is a lien on the property of a seller of a business, and the buyer withholds enough of the price to cover it until the seller produces a receipt. If none arrives within twenty days of the sale the buyer remits the tax itself.

Cited as K.S.A. 79-3612.

## Next Door to Kansas

Nobody buys a state. These are the states Kansas touches, with the buyable businesses each holds in the same 36 trades.

- Colorado: 23,585 buyable (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/states/colorado)
- Missouri: 22,224 buyable (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/states/missouri)
- Nebraska: 8,187 buyable (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/states/nebraska)
- Oklahoma: 14,213 buyable (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/states/oklahoma)

## Method and Source

- Establishment counts: 2023, https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html
- Population: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest.html
- Lending: SBA 7(a) FOIA loan-level dataset (as of June 30, 2026), FY2020 through FY2025

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