Chanute, Kansas.
Typical home $95,647 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$279 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,128 +5%
- $91,519$95,647 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,917 +21%
- $78,730$95,647 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.
- Chanute$502
- 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 Chanute, KS rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas
Chanute is a city of 8,722 people in Neosho County. Half its households earn more than $50,882 a year and half less, against $56,618 across Neosho County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Neosho County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chanute is a small city in Neosho County, Kansas, with a median age a little younger than many towns its size. Incomes run below the county's overall, and a good many residents live below the poverty line, but most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and summers hot, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Chanute include Neosho Memorial Regional MED CTR, a critical access hospital, Orizon Chanute Assembly, which builds aircraft parts, and Neosho County Community College. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Vegetarian Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Toronto Lake, a reservoir, and Cross Timbers State Park, a protected area, are both a longer drive away, as is Parsons Arboretum, a botanical garden.
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- 3,578households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Neosho County had 6,461 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chanute Martin Johnson Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chanute
- Neosho Memorial Regional MED CTRCritical access hospital337FTE
- Orizon Chanute AssemblyAircraft manufacturing311
- Neosho County Community CollegeTwo-year college287
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- Chanute Public SchoolsSchool district210FTE
- Orizon Aerostructures ProcessingAnodizing metals and metal products for the trade125
- Cleaver Farm and HomeHardware stores63
- HBD/Thermoid Inc. Allen StreetPlastics and rubber belts and hoses manufacturing61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,109 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chanute’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 Neosho County.
Chanute home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chanute$95,647
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Chanute listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Chanute21.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chanute51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chanute11
Zip codes with a Chanute address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chanute — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.