Clifton, Kansas.
Typical home $126,117 (-1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$373 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,548 -1%
- $127,665$126,117 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,383 +26%
- $99,733$126,117 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.
- Clifton$662
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Clifton, KS fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clifton, Washington County, Kansas
Clifton is a city of 454 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $62,625 a year and half less, against $65,482 across Washington County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clifton is a small Kansas city where almost everyone lives in a home they own, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in professional and business services, and in media and telecoms. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Barnes Schools, Hanover Hospital and Bradford Built, which makes truck bodies and cabs. Very few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The closest places worth a trip are all a longer drive away. The Cloud County Historical Museum is a museum, the Brown Grand Theatre is a theatre, and the Kansas Landscape Arboretum is a botanical garden. Together they make for a day out rather than an errand.
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- 197households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 2,024 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clay Ctr weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Barnes SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Bradford BuiltTruck bodies and cabs manufacturing66
- Linn Post & PipeCattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing57
- Washington Co. SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Titan WestCattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing49
- Hanover HospitalCritical access hospital47FTE
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital45FTE
- Keesecker Agri BusinessFarrow-to-finish operations26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 291 people in all across the county; Clifton 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clifton’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 Washington County.
Clifton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clifton$126,117
- 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 Clifton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clifton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.