Burdett, Kansas.
Typical home $107,317 (+11.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$343 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,657 +11%
- $96,660$107,317 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,149 +55%
- $69,168$107,317 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.
- Burdett$563
- 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 Burdett, KS rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burdett, Pawnee County, Kansas
Burdett is a city of 228 people in Pawnee County. Unemployment in Pawnee County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pawnee County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burdett is a very small city in Pawnee County, Kansas, where most people know one another and daily life is quiet. Incomes across the county are modest, and few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are inexpensive compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, transport and warehouses, and manufacturing. Across Pawnee County, some of the largest workplaces are Larned State Hospital, the Fort Larned school district and Pawnee Valley Community Hospital. Commutes are short, and the county has added a few more jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. History is the main draw nearby. Fort Larned National Historic Site is a protected area and one of the best known places in the region, and Camp on Pawnee Fork is an old fort site, each a longer drive away. The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum is a small museum, also a longer drive away, and the Pawnee River is there for time spent outdoors.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Pawnee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pawnee County had 2,590 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kinsley 2E weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pawnee County
- Larned State HospitalPsychiatric hospital912FTE
- Ft Larned SchoolsSchool district168FTE
- Pawnee Valley Community HospitalCritical access hospital98FTE
- Innovative Livestock ServicesBeef cattle feedlots68
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores52
- Diversicare of LarnedSkilled nursing facilities50
- Pawnee Heights SchoolsSchool district33FTE
- Sodexo at Larned State Hospital FoodFood service contractors33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 345 people in all across the county; Burdett has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burdett’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 Pawnee County.
Burdett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burdett$107,317
- 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 Burdett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burdett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.