Andover
Andover is the Butler County answer to anyone who finds west Wichita too sprawling and east Wichita too compromised. The schools draw the families, the schools keep the families, and the schools quietly inflate the rents. Central Park gives you a respectable walk; the Andover Public Library punches above weight class. Date nights tend toward dependable chains along 21st, with the genuinely interesting food a fifteen-minute commute back into the city proper. The tradeoff is candid: you trade walkable surprise for predictable calm. Singletons skew either fresh-out-of-college teachers or divorced parents on the rebound. Honest enough, if you know what you signed up for.
Andover by the numbers
Andover runs male-heavy, about 59% men to 41% women.
Median individual income in Andover is about $56,300.
Kansas registers voters by party, and Sedgwick County is about 40% Republican with a 33% Unaffiliated bloc and 25% Democratic - the state’s most competitive large county.
The median renter in Andover pays about $1,450 a month.
About 1,500 Andover residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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Applebee's Grill + Bar
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Timbuktu Bar & Grill
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Spaulding's Food & Drink
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Coffee Daze
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Metro Bistro
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Hot Berries & Crepes
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7 Brew Coffee
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Mokas Coffee & Eatery
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Social Tap Drinkery - Andover
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ADV Forest Hibachi Grill & Noodles
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Livingston's Cafe
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Dutch Bros Coffee
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Mega Pines Mini Golf
Wheelchair access