Burlington, Kansas.
Typical home $181,475 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$555 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,085 +3%
- $176,390$181,475 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,267 +35%
- $134,207$181,475 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.
- Burlington$953
- 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 Burlington, KS rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burlington, Coffey County, Kansas
Burlington is a city of 2,634 people in Coffey County. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Coffey County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burlington is a small city in Coffey County, Kansas, where residents tend to be somewhat older than in the country as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than it is nationally. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Burlington are Burlington Schools, Coffey County Hospital and Life Care Center of Burlington. Most people get to work in a short drive, and very few work from home.
Things to do. John Redmond Reservoir is a short drive away, and Jacobs Creek, a small river, is also close by. A longer drive leads to Melvern Lake, another reservoir, and to Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area.
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- 1,104households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coffey County had 3,448 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the John Redmond Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burlington
- Burlington SchoolsSchool district237FTE
- Coffey County HospitalCritical access hospital163FTE
- Life Care Center of BurlingtonSkilled nursing facilities89
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 89 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burlington’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 Coffey County.
Burlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burlington$181,475
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Burlington listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Burlington32.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burlington27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burlington6
Zip codes with a Burlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.