Burrton, Kansas.
Typical home $171,416 (+5.0% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$507 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,159 +5%
- $163,257$171,416 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,716 +36%
- $125,699$171,416 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.
- Burrton$900
- 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 Burrton, KS rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burrton, Harvey County, Kansas
Burrton is a city of 861 people in Harvey County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Harvey County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harvey 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burrton is a very small Kansas city in Harvey County, with a population well below what most American towns have. Most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than you would find in many places, and typical home values are modest. 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.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and other services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people travel to their jobs, with a commute that is fairly short. Across Harvey County, the largest workplaces include AGCO : Hesston, which makes farm tractors and attachments, Newton Medical Center and Newton Schools.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Inman and Cheney Reservoir are both a longer drive away, as is Sand Hills State Park, a protected area. Families can head to the Sedgwick County Zoo, also a longer drive away. The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, a museum and the best known of the nearby places, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 340households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Harvey County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harvey County had 14,096 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hutchinson Municipal Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harvey County
- AGCO : HesstonFarm tractors and attachments manufacturing880
- Newton Medical CenterGeneral hospital572FTE
- Newton SchoolsSchool district559FTE
- Stanley Black and DeckerGrass mowing equipment, powered lawn and garden, manufacturing550
- Paramount Community Living and RehabContinuing care retirement communities351
- Bluestem Communities ManagementContinuing care retirement communities341
- Prairie ViewPsychiatric hospital297FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,452 people in all across the county; Burrton has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burrton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Harvey County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Burrton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burrton$171,416
- 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.
- Burrton7
Zip codes with a Burrton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burrton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.