Caney, Kansas.
Typical home $78,419 (+1.3% in a year). Coffeyville, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$213 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $995 +1%
- $77,424$78,419 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,755 +21%
- $64,664$78,419 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.
- Caney$412
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Caney, KS rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Caney, Montgomery County, Kansas
Caney is a city of 1,788 people in Montgomery County. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caney is a small city in Montgomery County, Kansas, where a good share of residents live below the poverty line and few adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values are low, and household incomes across the county are modest. Winters are cold and summers hot, with a little snow each year and a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also providing jobs. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Textron Aviation in Independence, Spears Manufacturing and the Independence school district. Unemployment in the county has risen over the past year, and there are fewer jobs than there were the year before. Most people travel a good way to work, and none work from home.
Things to do. Outdoor places are the main draw, though all are a longer drive away. Elk City State Park and Elk City Lake offer a protected area and a reservoir for time by the water, and Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is a protected area of open prairie. For something indoors, the Emmett Kelly Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 592households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 14,217 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 9 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sedan weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Textron Aviation - IndependenceAircraft manufacturing605
- Spears ManufacturingFittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing575
- CVRCrude oil refining379
- Standard Motor ProductsVoltage regulators for internal combustion engines manufacturing337
- Independence SchoolsSchool district332FTE
- Acme FoundryCastings, unfinished iron, manufacturing327
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters291
- John Deere Coffeyville WorksTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing254
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,284 people in all across the county; Caney has two of its own. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Caney’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 Montgomery County and the Coffeyville, KS metro.
Caney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caney$78,419
- 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.
- Caney14
Zip codes with a Caney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.