Brookville, Kansas.
Typical home $212,562 (+16.7% in a year). Salina, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$647 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,346 +17%
- $182,216$212,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,473 +37%
- $155,089$212,562 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.
- Brookville$1,116
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Brookville, KS rose 16.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookville, Saline County, Kansas
Brookville is a city of 247 people in Saline County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookville is a very small Kansas city, home to far fewer people than most towns of its kind. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, a much higher share than across the county. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical for the country, and the typical home is priced modestly. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Saline County, the largest workplaces include Salina Schools, Salina Regional Health Center and Walmart. The drive to work is on the long side, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Mushroom Rock State Park, a protected area, and Rolling Hills Zoo are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Kanopolis Lake is a reservoir with the state park beside it, and Fort Harker is a historic fort. The Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts is also a longer drive away.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 2%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, 11 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; Brookville 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery 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 Brookville’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.
Brookville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookville$212,562
- 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.
- Brookville4
Zip codes with a Brookville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.