Assaria, Kansas.
Typical home $239,764 (+9.8% in a year). Salina, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$685 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,364 +10%
- $218,400$239,764 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,095 +33%
- $179,669$239,764 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.
- Assaria$1,258
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Assaria, KS rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Assaria, Saline County, Kansas
Assaria is a city of 428 people in Saline County. Unemployment in Saline County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saline County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Assaria is a very small city in Saline County, Kansas, where people are likely to know one another by sight. Homes here are priced well within reach compared with many parts of the country, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than is the case across much of the state. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing only on the milder days, while July brings real heat, the hottest weather of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Saline County, some of the largest workplaces are Salina Schools, Salina Regional Health Center and Great Plains Manufacturing, which makes farm seeders. Unemployment in the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. Most people make a commute of ordinary length, and only a few work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Salina Stadium and Lindstrom Field are the nearest places to catch a game. Farther afield, Kanopolis State Park and Kanopolis Lake offer a protected area and a reservoir for time on the water and outdoors. For a day out with history, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Saline County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saline County had 30,369 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more 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 94° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smolan 1NE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saline County
- Salina SchoolsSchool district1,509FTE
- Salina Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital1,411FTE
- Schwan's Shared ServicesPl993
- Stryten SalinaLead acid storage batteries manufacturing650
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- Schwan's Shared ServicesPl317
- Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. - CECultivators, farm-type, manufacturing308
- Salina Vortex Corporation - VortexGate valves, industrial-type, manufacturing282
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,245 people in all across the county; Assaria has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Assaria’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 Saline County and the Salina, KS metro.
Assaria home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Assaria$239,764
- 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 Assaria address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Assaria — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.