Cimarron, Kansas.
Typical home $236,036 (+2.2% in a year). Garden City, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$700 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,156 +2%
- $230,881$236,036 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,635 +32%
- $179,401$236,036 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.
- Cimarron$1,239
- 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 Cimarron, KS rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cimarron, Gray County, Kansas
Cimarron is a city of 1,981 people in Gray County. Half its households earn more than $82,422 a year and half less, against $79,122 across Gray County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Gray County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cimarron is a small city in Gray County, Kansas, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and the typical home value is modest compared with many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, and summers turn hot by July, with moisture across the year coming as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Gray County, some of the largest workplaces are Bethel Home, Davis Electric and Cimarron-Ensign Schools. The typical commute is a short one, a small number of people work from home, and job numbers in the county dipped slightly last year.
Things to do. For a day out, Boot Hill Museum is a museum and Fort Dodge is a fort, and both are a longer drive away. Finney County Point of Rocks, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive away, and it suits anyone who likes to see a bit of the plains landscape.
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- 755households
- 19 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gray County had 3,041 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 67°. About 17 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cimarron weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gray County
- Mjec,llcBackfilling, construction248
- Bethel HomeSkilled nursing facilities126
- Davis ElectricElectrical contractors95
- Cimarron-Ensign SchoolsSchool district91FTE
- Spandet DairyMilk production, dairy cattle86
- Midwest FeedersBeef cattle feedlots81
- Royal Farms DairyDairy cattle farming76
- Montezuma SchoolsSchool district42FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 780 people in all across the county; Cimarron has two 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Cimarron’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 Gray County and the Garden City, KS metro.
Cimarron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cimarron$236,036
- 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.
- Cimarron15
Zip codes with a Cimarron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cimarron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.