Cheney, Kansas.
Typical home $277,960 (+3.4% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$801 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,240 +3%
- $268,720$277,960 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,703 +30%
- $213,257$277,960 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.
- Cheney$1,459
- 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 Cheney, KS rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cheney, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Cheney is a city of 2,181 people in Sedgwick County. Half its households earn more than $85,313 a year and half less, against $69,365 across Sedgwick County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Sedgwick County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cheney is a small city in Sedgwick County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is fairly low. The typical home is worth a good deal, and the town is somewhat younger than many of its older residents might expect. Winters are cold, with only a modest amount of snow, and summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Sedgwick County, some of the largest workplaces are Spirit AeroSystems, Textron Aviation and Wichita State University. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has edged up slightly over the past year, while the number of jobs has stayed close to level.
Things to do. Water is the main draw close to town. Cheney Reservoir and Cheney State Park are a short drive away, and Lake Afton, another reservoir, is also close by. In or beside town, the Souders Historical Museum is a small museum worth a visit. A longer drive takes you to the Sedgwick County Zoo.
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- 862households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sedgwick County had 265,869 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 7 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norwich weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedgwick County
- Spirit AeroSystemsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing11,669
- Wichita SchoolsSchool district7,727FTE
- Textron Aviation - Mid-ContinentAircraft manufacturing5,249
- Wichita State UniversityUniversity or college3,108
- VIA Christi Hospital WichitaGeneral hospital2,496FTE
- Textron Aviation - East CampusAircraft manufacturing2,253
- Wesley Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,181FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,518
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 529 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,668 people in all across the county; Cheney has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cheney’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 Sedgwick County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Cheney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cheney$277,960
- 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.
- Cheney14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cheney7
Zip codes with a Cheney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cheney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.