Attica, Kansas.
Typical home $81,364 (+8.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$276 (+183%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,347 +8%
- $75,016$81,364 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,922 +68%
- $48,442$81,364 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.
- Attica$427
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Attica, KS rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Attica, Harper County, Kansas
Attica is a city of 516 people in Harper County. Half its households earn more than $48,750 a year and half less, against $53,488 across Harper County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Harper County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harper 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Attica is a small city in Harper County, Kansas, with a population that fits comfortably within a few blocks of one another. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get quite hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and shops also employing many. Across Harper County, some of the largest workplaces are Harper Industries, which makes harvesting machinery and equipment, Patterson Health Center, a critical access hospital, and Chaparral Schools. Very few people work from home, and jobs across the county grew a little last year.
Things to do. The Medicine Lodge River is the one nearby place on the list, a river a longer drive away. It makes a quiet destination for anyone who likes time by the water.
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- 197households
- 18%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Harper County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harper County had 2,464 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 11 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anthony weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harper County
- Harper IndustriesHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing177
- Hospital District No. 6 of Harper County KansasHospitals, general pediatric170
- Patterson Health CenterCritical access hospital147FTE
- Chaparral SchoolsSchool district146FTE
- Elkhorn Valley PackingBeef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses115
- Attica SchoolsSchool district34FTE
- AVE PLP423820 farm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 485 people in all across the county; Attica has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Attica’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 Harper County.
Attica home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Attica$81,364
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Attica5
Zip codes with a Attica address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Attica — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.