Bentley, Kansas.
Typical home $166,647 (+1.0% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,707 +1%
- $164,940$166,647 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,916 +33%
- $125,731$166,647 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.
- Bentley$875
- 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 Bentley, KS rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bentley, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Bentley is a city of 560 people in Sedgwick County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Sedgwick County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bentley is a small city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across the nation. Winters are cold, with only a modest amount of snow, and summers turn hot; rain and melted snow arrive fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades. Across Sedgwick County, some of the largest workplaces are Spirit AeroSystems, Textron Aviation and Wichita State University. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a little longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. Nothing on the list sits close by, but a longer drive brings the Sedgwick County Zoo, the Wichita Art Museum and Botanica, The Wichita Gardens. Those who prefer the water can head a longer drive to the Ninnescah River. The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is another museum within a longer drive.
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- 152households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sedgwick County had 265,869 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 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 9 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedgwick County
- Spirit AeroSystemsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing11,669
- Wichita SchoolsSchool district7,727FTE
- Textron Aviation - Mid-ContinentAircraft manufacturing5,249
- Wichita State UniversityUniversity or college3,108
- VIA Christi Hospital WichitaGeneral hospital2,496FTE
- Textron Aviation - East CampusAircraft manufacturing2,253
- Wesley Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,181FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,518
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 529 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,668 people in all across the county; Bentley has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bentley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Sedgwick County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Bentley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bentley$166,647
- 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 Bentley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bentley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.