Claflin, Kansas.
Typical home $139,310 (+9.0% in a year). Great Bend, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$422 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,446 +9%
- $127,864$139,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,222 +41%
- $99,088$139,310 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.
- Claflin$731
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Claflin, KS rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Claflin, Barton County, Kansas
Claflin is a city of 562 people in Barton County. Unemployment in Barton County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barton County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Claflin is a very small city in central Kansas, in Barton County, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Homes here cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with moderate rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Barton County, some of the largest workplaces are Great Bend Schools, Barton County Community College and Walmart. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in much of the country.
Things to do. Wilson Lake, a reservoir, and Wilson State Park beside it are a longer drive away and suit boating, fishing and time outdoors. Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is a protected area that draws people who like watching birds. Fort Harker, one of the old frontier forts, is a longer drive away as well and gives a look at the region's past.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 12%work from home
What people in Barton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barton County had 11,375 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Great Bend 3W weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barton County
- Great Bend SchoolsSchool district511FTE
- Barton County Community CollegeTwo-year college435
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- Ukhs Great Bend CampusGeneral hospital287FTE
- Superior Essex InternationalAircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants236
- Clara Barton Hospital AssociationCritical access hospital201FTE
- VenturePavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction140
- Sunflower Diversified ServicesHabilitation job counseling and training, vocational134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,808 people in all across the county; Claflin has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Claflin’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 Barton County and the Great Bend, KS metro.
Claflin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Claflin$139,310
- 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.
- Claflin6
Zip codes with a Claflin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Claflin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.