Cherokee, Kansas.
Typical home $102,066 (-0.5% in a year). Pittsburg, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$248 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $490 -0%
- $102,555$102,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,629 +9%
- $93,436$102,066 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.
- Cherokee$536
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Cherokee, KS fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cherokee, Crawford County, Kansas
Cherokee is a city of 590 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $56,154 a year and half less, against $52,844 across Crawford County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Crawford County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cherokee is a small city in Crawford County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and the weather brings cold winters, hot summers and a light amount of snow, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, shops and manufacturing also common. Across Crawford County, some of the largest workplaces are Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg Schools and VIA Christi Hospital Pittsburg. Commutes are fairly short, and a small group of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Prairie State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Crawford State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive away. Neosho State Fishing Lake, again a longer drive away, is a protected area suited to a quiet day by the water. Several small creeks run through the countryside around town, including Blackberry Creek and Center Creek.
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- 272households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 17,084 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 10 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pittsburg weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- Community Health Center of Southeast KansasCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient946
- Pittsburg State UniversityUniversity or college946
- Sugar Creek Packing CoBacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses596
- CDL Electric CompanyMaintenance of rights-of-way and structures, railway445
- Pittsburg SchoolsSchool district418FTE
- VIA Christi Hospital PittsburgGeneral hospital397FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters330
- Owens Corning Doors PittsburgDoor manufacturer241
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,122 people in all across the county; Cherokee has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- DroughtVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cherokee’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 Crawford County and the Pittsburg, KS metro.
Cherokee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cherokee$102,066
- 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.
Zip codes with a Cherokee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cherokee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.