Cherryvale, Kansas.
Typical home $111,449 (+9.3% in a year). Parsons, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$327 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,522 +9%
- $101,927$111,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,811 +20%
- $92,638$111,449 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.
- Cherryvale$585
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Cherryvale, KS rose 9.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cherryvale, Labette County, Kansas
Cherryvale is a city of 2,192 people in Labette County. Half its households earn more than $50,288 a year and half less, against $56,325 across Labette County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Labette County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cherryvale is a small city in Labette County, Kansas, with a younger population than many small towns have. Incomes run below the county's, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Labette County, the largest workplaces include Labette County Medical Center, Ducommun Aerostructures and Ruskin Company. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year ago. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost everyone travels to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Big Hill Lake is a reservoir a short drive away, and the Elk River is a river a short drive away. Elk City State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 844households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Labette County had 8,501 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Hill Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Labette County
- Labette County Medical CenterGeneral hospital481FTE
- Ducommun AerostructuresOther aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing314
- Ruskin CompanyHampers, laundry, sheet metal, manufacturing302
- Tank ConnectionTanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing265
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters235
- Parsons SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- Labette County SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- Labette Community CollegeTwo-year college188
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,978 people in all across the county; Cherryvale has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cherryvale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Labette County and the Parsons, KS metro.
Cherryvale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cherryvale$111,449
- 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.
- Cherryvale13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cherryvale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cherryvale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.