Chetopa, Kansas.
Typical home $67,434 (+7.1% in a year). Parsons, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$144 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,449 +7%
- $62,985$67,434 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $1,312 -2%
- $68,746$67,434 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.
- Chetopa$354
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Chetopa, KS rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chetopa, Cherokee County, Kansas
Chetopa is a city of 929 people in Cherokee County. Half its households earn more than $25,288 a year and half less, against $57,668 across Cherokee County. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chetopa is a small city in the southeast corner of Kansas, and it is home to far fewer people than most towns of its kind. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes cost relatively little compared with much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across Cherokee County is unchanged from a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs. Among the county's largest workplaces are Crossland Construction Company, Celltron and Jayhawk Fine Chemicals.
Things to do. Spring River is the best known of the nearby places, a river reached by a longer drive. Coleman Theatre is also a longer drive away, and Twin Bridges State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, again a longer drive. Winters here are cold and summers get quite hot, so spring and fall are easier seasons for getting out.
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- 373households
- 11%of adults have a degree
What people in Cherokee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 5,968 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Miami weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Crossland Construction CompanyCommercial building construction general contractors1,375
- Crossland Heavy ContractorsHorizontal drilling625
- CelltronRectifiers, electronic component-type, manufacturing417
- Shape Technologies GroupPrecision turned product manufacturing302
- Mid-America PipePipe made from purchased iron or steel178
- Jayhawk Fine ChemicalsOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing138
- Atec 1Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing135
- Galena SchoolsSchool district129FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,950 people in all across the county; Chetopa has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chetopa’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 Cherokee County and the Parsons, KS metro.
Chetopa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chetopa$67,434
- 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.
- Chetopa6
Zip codes with a Chetopa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chetopa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Chetopa
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67356 | Oswego | 2,728 | — | $101,476 |
| 67336 | Chetopa | 1,150 | — | $69,094 |