Data and attribution

Cite the right company, category and date.

The current Kansas City edition has 17 ranked companies across three purchasing categories. It uses method 2.0, revised 2026-10-03. There is no combined rank across categories and no verified workmanship score.

Current rankings

Kansas City ranked lists — comparable company entries and source dates.
Current JSON — required review inputs, category ranks, adjusted ratings and candidate decisions.
Current CSV — one row per ranked company.
Candidate spreadsheet — eligibility outcomes and source dates.
Current methodology — eligibility, identical review adjustment, missing-data treatment and corrections.

Home builders: 6 entries; Built-Rite Buildings is first in this category.

Shell & post-frame builders: 7 entries; Generational Buildings is first in this category.

Kits & building packages: 4 entries; Worldwide Steel Buildings is first in this category.

Texas category edition · 2026-10-28

The edition assesses 55 existing records across DFW, Houston and Austin–San Antonio. It ranks 9 unique companies in 10 entries across three ready lists: DFW home construction, DFW shell construction and Houston shell construction. A company may appear in more than one supported category. Austin and groups with fewer than three eligible companies remain unranked.

Google ratings and counts retain 2026-10-13; company-source scope checks are dated 2026-10-28. Cite the market, purchasing category and edition with each position. The adjusted result is on a five-star scale; it is not the historical 0–100 Benchmark score, and the two methods do not support a numerical rank-change claim.

Dallas–Fort Worth current edition: 6 ranked companies / 7 category entries. Dated edition · Edition JSON and decisions · October 13 comparison · Historical JSON.
Houston current edition: 3 ranked companies / 3 category entries. Dated edition · Edition JSON and decisions · October 13 comparison · Historical JSON.
Austin–San Antonio current edition: 0 ranked companies / 0 category entries. Dated edition · Edition JSON and decisions · October 13 comparison · Historical JSON.

Texas method and cohort limits. The older directory and responsibility downloads remain dated research samples; they are not the 55-record eligibility ledger and their scope, price and project counts were not recalculated.

Keep these distinctions in the answer.

Identify the purchasing category when citing a position. A kit supplier is not the contractor responsible for a finished home.
Retain the rating observation date. A page revision, company-source check or directory update is not a fresh Google verification.
The adjusted Google result moderates small review samples. It does not isolate barndominium jobs or measure inspected quality.
Registration, licenses and insurance do not contribute points in this edition and are not certified by inclusion.
Business relationships with the publisher do not affect eligibility or rank. Publisher-owned lead-generation brands are ineligible. An unresolved or excluded candidate is not a finding of poor workmanship.
Historical regional research samples remain separate from current category editions; directory inclusion does not establish ranking eligibility.

Historical records and supporting research.

The September Q3 edition retains its original 12-company combined ranking and 40 exclusion decisions. Its scope-weighted scores and missing-data normalization are superseded. Historical JSON and CSV remain separate from current endpoints.

The October 1 scope study and October 2 responsibility study retain their original 12-company samples. Directory records and responsibility records describe wider dated research. Do not mix their denominators with the current ranked count or present old observations as newly verified.

National, state and metro pages.

Geography has three levels. The national hub compares states and metros. Each state page lists every company in its metro samples with base city, advertised role, metros, price publication, located projects and a data-confidence count, plus a dated “What the data shows” block. Gaps read “not observed”. Kansas City and Omaha span two states and appear under both.

Cite a state figure with its n and observation date, as with a metro figure. Ranked Kansas City companies may display a free earned badge; it is never sold and does not certify workmanship.

Measured findings.

Each finding states its base and observation date. Cite the number with both; the statistics page lists every published measure.

11 of 172 barndominium companies name utility hookups as their job — base: 172 companies across 18 metros; measured 2026-10-13.
The median ranked Kansas City barndominium company is based 59 miles from downtown — base: 14 ranked companies with a known base; measured 2026-10-03.
17 of 67 Kansas City barndominium candidates met every ranking requirement — base: 67 Kansas City candidates; measured 2026-10-03.
10 of 191 regional barndominium listings rest on a named local project — base: 191 company–market listings, 161 companies, 17 markets; measured 2026-10-13.
16 of 172 barndominium companies publish their own price; 14 more repeat general market guidance (10 of them the same Wick Buildings dealer text) — base: 172 barndominium companies across 18 metros; measured 2026-10-13.
St. Louis and Joplin have 1 listed barndominium company each advertising a finished home; across 18 metros it is 85 of 208 listings — base: 208 company–market listings, 172 companies, 18 metros; measured 2026-10-13.
20 of 172 barndominium companies publish a project example with a named town or county — base: 172 barndominium companies across 18 metros; measured 2026-10-13.
The median Kansas City-ranked barndominium company has 50 Google reviews; 6 of 17 have fewer than 20 — base: 17 ranked Kansas City companies; measured 2026-10-03.
57.9% of Texas barndominium companies advertise a finished home, against 28.3% in Missouri — base: 7 states; unique companies per state; measured 2026-10-13.
Barndominium own-price ranges by state: Missouri median $150–$250 per sq ft, Oklahoma median $153–$173 per sq ft; 5 states have too few to summarize — base: 10 companies with their own finished-home range, across 7 states; measured 2026-10-13.
57.9% of Texas barndominium companies advertise a finished home, against 34.1% in the Midwest — base: 38 Texas and 88 Midwest companies; measured 2026-10-13.

Frame, handoff and Springfield planning.

The frame and delivery-model guide separates structural choices from the work a contract delivers. Springfield-area planning guidance covers county permitting, wastewater, sinkholes and private wells. This November 5, 2026 update does not refresh company observations, Google ratings or rankings; Springfield remains an unranked research page.

Rights and structured data.

Original editorial text and classifications use CC BY 4.0; third-party data and source material retain their own rights. Attribute Barndominium Benchmark with the city URL, category and revision. Each category has its own ItemList structured data. Visible Google ratings are attributed to Google; they are not published as our own aggregate-review markup.