Circleville, Kansas.
Typical home $235,522 (+8.5% in a year). Topeka, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$828 (+203%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,465 +9%
- $217,056$235,522 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,775 +55%
- $151,746$235,522 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.
- Circleville$1,236
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Circleville, KS rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Circleville, Jackson County, Kansas
Circleville is a city of 153 people in Jackson County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Circleville is a very small city in Jackson County, Kansas, and nearly every home in town is lived in by its owner. Typical home values sit well within reach of what Jackson County households earn, which is a comfortable setup for people who want to stay put. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common, while July brings hot days; rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents of Circleville work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and government also giving steady employment. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Prairie Band Casino & Resort, Johnsonville and Holton Schools. Joblessness in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Water is the main draw around Circleville. Silver Lake and Shawnee State Fishing Lake are both a longer drive away and suit anglers and anyone who likes an afternoon by the shore. The Delaware River, also a longer drive away, offers quiet stretches for paddling or walking its banks.
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What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 4,454 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holton weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Prairie Band Casino & Resort815
- JohnsonvilleAnimal slaughtering226
- Holton SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- TechsEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground155
- Royal Valley SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Holton Community HospitalCritical access hospital120FTE
- North Jackson SchoolsSchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,573 people in all across the county; Circleville has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Circleville’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 Jackson County and the Topeka, KS metro.
Circleville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Circleville$235,522
- 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 Circleville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Circleville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.