Compare Kansas sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 105 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-09-26.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen County | 12,554 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Anderson County | 7,799 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Atchison County | 16,309 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Barber County | 4,081 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Barton County | 25,477 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bourbon County | 14,405 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brown County | 9,486 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Butler County | 67,618 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chase County | 2,570 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chautauqua County | 3,389 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cherokee County | 19,380 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cheyenne County | 2,619 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clark County | 1,977 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clay County | 8,088 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cloud County | 9,008 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Coffey County | 8,334 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Comanche County | 1,825 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cowley County | 34,661 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Crawford County | 39,012 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Decatur County | 2,771 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dickinson County | 18,492 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Doniphan County | 7,501 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Douglas County | 119,094 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Edwards County | 2,849 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Elk County | 2,453 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ellis County | 28,921 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ellsworth County | 6,374 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Finney County | 38,187 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ford County | 34,212 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin County | 25,968 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Geary County | 36,247 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gove County | 2,758 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Graham County | 2,430 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grant County | 7,336 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gray County | 5,719 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Greeley County | 1,279 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Greenwood County | 6,001 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hamilton County | 2,520 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Harper County | 5,457 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Harvey County | 33,959 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Haskell County | 3,735 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hodgeman County | 1,770 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jackson County | 13,274 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jefferson County | 18,387 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jewell County | 2,929 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Johnson County | 610,742 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kearny County | 3,964 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kingman County | 7,369 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kiowa County | 2,445 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Labette County | 20,096 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lane County | 1,528 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Leavenworth County | 82,050 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lincoln County | 2,929 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Linn County | 9,696 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Logan County | 2,752 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lyon County | 32,182 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Marion County | 11,867 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Marshall County | 10,014 | — | — | — | — | — |
| McPherson County | 30,085 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Meade County | 4,019 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Miami County | 34,312 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mitchell County | 5,829 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Montgomery County | 31,448 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Morris County | 5,385 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Morton County | 2,688 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemaha County | 10,219 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Neosho County | 15,826 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ness County | 2,677 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Norton County | 5,431 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Osage County | 15,787 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Osborne County | 3,493 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ottawa County | 5,768 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pawnee County | 6,288 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Phillips County | 4,960 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pottawatomie County | 25,482 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pratt County | 9,175 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rawlins County | 2,544 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Reno County | 61,881 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Republic County | 4,686 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rice County | 9,441 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Riley County | 72,105 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rooks County | 4,925 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rush County | 2,939 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Russell County | 6,702 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Saline County | 54,160 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scott County | 5,128 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sedgwick County | 522,700 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Seward County | 21,942 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Shawnee County | 178,625 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sheridan County | 2,450 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sherman County | 5,940 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Smith County | 3,561 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stafford County | 4,054 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stanton County | 2,060 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stevens County | 5,275 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sumner County | 22,517 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Thomas County | 7,907 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Trego County | 2,798 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wabaunsee County | 6,922 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wallace County | 1,489 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington County | 5,529 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wichita County | 2,131 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wilson County | 8,667 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Woodson County | 3,134 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wyandotte County | 167,989 | — | — | — | — | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for Kansas, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. County jail data has not yet been loaded for Kansas, so the jail column shows "—" for every county. No Kansas state agency inspects or sets standards for county jails comparable to a body like the Texas Commission on Jail Standards; the Kansas Department of Corrections operates only state prison facilities, and county jails instead receive an annual life-safety inspection from the State Fire Marshal's office rather than a comprehensive jail-standards review. The only systematic facility-level source covering Kansas county jails is the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics Annual Survey of Jails. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for Kansas. Sheriff names were collected from the Kansas Sheriffs' Association member directory and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026. Riley County's listing shows Brian Peete, the appointed Director of the Riley County Police Department, rather than an elected sheriff; Riley County abolished its sheriff's office in 1974 and consolidated law enforcement under RCPD, an exemption now written into the Kansas Constitution.