Colwich, Kansas.
Typical home $313,532 (+3.3% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$888 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,033 +3%
- $303,499$313,532 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,388 +29%
- $243,144$313,532 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.
- Colwich$1,646
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Colwich, KS rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colwich, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Colwich is a city of 1,455 people in Sedgwick County. Half its households earn more than $88,295 a year and half less, against $69,365 across Sedgwick County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Sedgwick County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colwich is a small Kansas city in Sedgwick County, with a younger population than many towns its size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades and in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Colwich are ICM Ventures, a maker of fabricated structural metal, Cardinal Colwich, which makes denatured alcohol, and Colwich Gardens Assisted Living. Unemployment across Sedgwick County has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has grown only slightly.
Things to do. The Sedgwick County Zoo is a short drive away, and so is Tanganyika Wildlife Park, another zoo. A longer drive brings you to the Wichita Art Museum, a good outing for a quiet afternoon indoors. Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, is also a longer drive away.
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- 531households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sedgwick County had 265,869 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wichita Wx weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Colwich
- ICM VenturesFabricated structural metal manufacturing264
- Cardinal ColwichDenatured alcohol manufacturing45
- Colwich Gardens Assisted LivingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 338 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colwich’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 Sedgwick County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Colwich home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colwich$313,532
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Colwich address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colwich — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.