Atwood, Kansas.
Typical home $133,550 (+3.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$376 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,402 +3%
- $129,147$133,550 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,409 +15%
- $116,141$133,550 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.
- Atwood$701
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Atwood, KS rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atwood, Rawlins County, Kansas
Atwood is a city of 1,290 people in Rawlins County. Half its households earn more than $72,188 a year and half less, against $67,742 across Rawlins County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Rawlins County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atwood is a small city and the seat of Rawlins County in northwest Kansas. Residents are somewhat older than in many American towns, and most households own the home they live in. Household incomes run above the county's, and winters are cold and fairly snowy, while July brings hot days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Rawlins County Schools, Rawlins County Health Center and Vap Construction, a post framing contractor. Jobs across the county have slipped a little in the past year, and unemployment is low and close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. The Shirley Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is the one place on the list of nearby attractions, and it gives residents a spot for live performances close to home.
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- 582households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rawlins County had 992 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 62°. About 29 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atwood weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atwood
- Rawlins County SchoolsSchool district76FTE
- Rawlins County Health CenterCritical access hospital64FTE
- Vap ConstructionPost framing contractors26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 102 people in all. 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Atwood’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 Rawlins County.
Atwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atwood$133,550
- 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.
- Atwood7
Zip codes with a Atwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.