Chapman, Kansas.
Typical home $247,804 (+5.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$720 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,720 +6%
- $234,084$247,804 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,428 +31%
- $189,377$247,804 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.
- Chapman$1,301
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Chapman, KS rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chapman, Dickinson County, Kansas
Chapman is a city of 1,377 people in Dickinson County. Half its households earn more than $72,344 a year and half less, against $68,417 across Dickinson County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Dickinson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chapman is a small city in Dickinson County, Kansas, with a population that is small enough for neighbors to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold, with only light snowfall, and summers are hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with retail, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Some of the largest workplaces across Dickinson County are Russell Stover Chocolates in Abilene, Great Plains Manufacturing, which makes farm tractors and mowing equipment, and Memorial Hospital in Abilene. The commute to work is a fairly typical one, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Milford Lake is a large reservoir, and Milford State Park sits beside it, both a longer drive away and suited to a day by the water. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home is a well-known museum, also a longer drive away. The Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad is another museum-style outing for those who enjoy history.
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- 537households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dickinson County had 6,601 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 7 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chapman weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dickinson County
- Russell Stover Chocolates LLC AbileneCandy manufacturing537
- Sunbelt Solomon Services- KSSOTransformers, electric power, manufacturing327
- Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. - Abilene WestFarm tractors and attachments manufacturing274
- Great Plains Manufacturing Abilene East PlantGrass mowing equipment manufacturing199
- Abilene SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Memorial Hospital - AbileneCritical access hospital183FTE
- Chapman SchoolsSchool district171FTE
- West Plaza Country MartGrocery stores95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,649 people in all across the county; Chapman has one of its own. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chapman’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 Dickinson County.
Chapman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chapman$247,804
- 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.
- Chapman8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Chapman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chapman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.