Damar, Kansas.
Typical home $112,763 (+1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$345 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,143 +1%
- $111,620$112,763 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,647 +36%
- $83,117$112,763 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.
- Damar$592
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Damar, KS rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Damar, Rooks County, Kansas
Damar is a city of 112 people in Rooks County. Unemployment in Rooks County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rooks County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Damar is a small city in Rooks County, in north-central Kansas, where most people know one another. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with rain and melted snow arriving over the course of the year. The surrounding land is open prairie, and life here moves at a quiet, unhurried pace.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining, and others work in shops or other services. Only a small share of residents work from home, so most jobs are based outside the house. Jobs in Rooks County have been growing slightly in recent years.
Things to do. Nicodemus National Historic Site, a museum a short drive away, tells the story of a community settled by Black families in the late nineteenth century. Webster State Park, a protected area also a short drive away, offers a place to spend time outdoors. The Bukovina Society Headquarters and Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 3%work from home
What people in Rooks County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rooks County had 1,766 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 64°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Webster Dam weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rooks County
- Rooks County Health CenterCritical access hospital173FTE
- Wilkens ManufacturingTruck trailer manufacturing84
- Plainville SchoolsSchool district62FTE
- Stockton SchoolsSchool district55FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 264 people in all across the county; Damar has none 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Damar’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 Rooks County.
Damar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Damar$112,763
- 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 Damar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Damar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.