Albert, Kansas.
Typical home $134,000 (+6.9% in a year). Great Bend, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$424 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,602 +7%
- $125,399$134,000 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,943 +41%
- $95,057$134,000 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Albert$703
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Albert, KS rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albert, Rush County, Kansas
Albert is a city of 132 people in Rush County. Half its households earn more than $58,750 a year and half less, against $59,970 across Rush County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Rush County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rush County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Albert is a very small city in Rush County, Kansas, where nearly every home is lived in by its owner. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes here are modest in price. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with a moderate amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, manufacturing and transport also well represented. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a small share of people work from home, so most head out to a job each day on a fairly short commute. Across Rush County, the biggest workplaces include KBK Industries, which makes tanks and storage products, Rush County Memorial Hospital, and the LaCrosse Schools.
Things to do. Fort Larned National Historic Site, a protected area, is a longer drive away and a good stop for anyone interested in frontier history. The Pawnee River, also a longer drive away, suits a quiet day by the water. The Great Bend Zoo is likewise a longer drive away, and makes an outing for visiting family.
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- 52households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Rush County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rush County had 1,029 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Great Bend 3W weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rush County
- KBK IndustriesTanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing104
- Rush County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital84FTE
- Locust Grove VillageNursing homes70
- LaCrosse SchoolsSchool district49FTE
- Otis-Bison SchoolsSchool district45FTE
- Messer North AmericaIndustrial gases manufacturing37
- Flame EngineeringManufacture propane torches25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 276 people in all across the county; Albert has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albert’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Rush County and the Great Bend, KS metro.
Albert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albert$134,000
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Albert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.