Baileyville, Kansas.
Typical home $346,190 (+10.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,219 (+204%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $33,173 +11%
- $313,016$346,190 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,417 +53%
- $226,773$346,190 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.
- Baileyville$1,817
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Baileyville, KS rose 10.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baileyville, Nemaha County, Kansas
Baileyville, in Nemaha County, had 182 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Nemaha County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nemaha 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baileyville is a very small farming community in Nemaha County, Kansas, with few residents and the quiet that comes with that. Homes here are worth more than many people expect from a place this size, and the county's household incomes are comfortable. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, while the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and shops also employing many people. Across Nemaha County, some of the largest workplaces are Koch and Co, a cabinet and wood manufacturer, Apostolic Christian Home, which runs group homes with nursing care, and Prairie Hills Schools. Unemployment in the county has stayed steady compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Water and history are the main draws nearby, all a longer drive away. The Delaware River and the Little Blue River offer river scenery, and Alcove Springs is a waterfall. Fort Plymouth is a historic fort for those who like to see how the area's past looked.
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What people in Nemaha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nemaha County had 5,766 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baileyville weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nemaha County
- Koch and CoCabinets, wood, manufacturing285
- Apostolic Christian HomeGroup homes for the disabled with nursing care190
- Prairie Hills SchoolsSchool district148FTE
- Nemaha Central SchoolsSchool district138FTE
- Alphia - BernPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing136
- Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 714 Main StFood choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers manufacturing136
- Nemaha Valley Community HospitalCritical access hospital117FTE
- Koch and CoCabinets, wood, manufacturing114
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,763 people in all across the county; Baileyville has none 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 stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baileyville’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 Nemaha County.
Baileyville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baileyville$346,190
- 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 Baileyville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baileyville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.