Lawson is located 40 minutes north of downtown Kansas City. This community of 2,300 offers the perfect small town environment with all the basic amenities. The community offers a lumber yard, two banks, hair salons, accountants and tax services, insurance companies, dog groomer, restaurants and drinking establishments, a gym, gas stations and convenience stores, pharmacy with soda fountain, tanning salons, health care professionals, fast food establishments, real estate offices, veterinarian and animal hospital, auction service, retail shops, auto repair businesses, investment counselor, feed/agricultural store, a weekly newspaper, car washes, etc.

Lawson has homes for most budgets and most lifestyles. From new homes to nice newer apartments to senior housing and retirement or assisted living — Lawson has it all. Just look at your choices: older houses for the budget minded, restore beauties from the past, contemporary stylings, new homes and country estates.