Colony, Kansas.
Typical home $180,182 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$601 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,287 +7%
- $168,894$180,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,189 +32%
- $136,993$180,182 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.
- Colony$946
- 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 Colony, KS rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colony, Anderson County, Kansas
Colony is a city of 381 people in Anderson County. Unemployment in Anderson County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Anderson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colony is a very small city in Anderson County, Kansas, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what many American towns ask, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Snow is modest for a cold-winter place, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and retail also employing many. Across Anderson County, the largest workplaces include Anderson County Hospital, Garnett Schools and Parkview Heights Nursing & Rehab Center. The county's unemployment rate has risen over the past year, though the number of jobs has grown slightly. Most people have a commute of a short drive, and few work from home.
Things to do. Water and history are the draws nearby, though everything on this list is a longer drive away. John Redmond Reservoir is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, and Limestone Creek is one of several creeks in the area for a quiet day outdoors. Fort Belmont, an old fort, is the place to go for a look at the region's past.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Anderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anderson County had 2,447 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Iola West weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anderson County
- Anderson County HospitalCritical access hospital150FTE
- Garnett SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Parkview Heights Nursing & Rehab CenterSkilled nursing facilities80
- East Kansas Agri-EnergyDenatured alcohol manufacturing41
- Crest SchoolsSchool district38FTE
- RpcsGrocery stores26
- GarnettMail and parcel delivery20
- Taylor Forge Engineered Systems GreeleyConduit, welded and lock joint, made from purchased iron or steel20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 408 people in all across the county; Colony has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colony’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 Anderson County.
Colony home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colony$180,182
- 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 Colony address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colony — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.