Burns, Kansas.
Typical home $200,449 (+9.0% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$605 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,537 +9%
- $183,913$200,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,663 +28%
- $156,786$200,449 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.
- Burns$1,052
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Burns, KS rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burns, Butler County, Kansas
Burns is a city of 234 people in Butler County. Half its households earn more than $42,292 a year and half less, against $81,610 across Butler County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burns is a very small city in Butler County, Kansas, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes in town run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect from the county as a whole. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here cost less than in much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Butler Community College, Andover Schools and HF Sinclair's El Dorado refinery. Many people travel a good way to get to work, and the commute is a long one by most standards.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is a protected area of prairie, and El Dorado Lake is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Peabody City Park is a park for a quieter afternoon, also a longer drive from town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 111households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 19,973 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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 90° and lows near 68°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Florence weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Butler Community CollegeTwo-year college683
- Andover SchoolsSchool district612FTE
- HF Sinclair, El Dorado RefiningPetroleum refineries486
- Kansas Medical CenterGeneral hospital297FTE
- Circle SchoolsSchool district292FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters242
- Augusta SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- El Dorado SchoolsSchool district235FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,932 people in all across the county; Burns has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burns’ 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 Butler County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Burns home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burns$200,449
- 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 Burns address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burns — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.