Deerfield, Kansas.
Typical home $163,105 (-0.5% in a year). Garden City, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$460 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $777 -0%
- $163,883$163,105 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,869 +15%
- $141,236$163,105 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.
- Deerfield$856
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Deerfield, KS fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Deerfield, Kearny County, Kansas
Deerfield is a city of 711 people in Kearny County. Unemployment in Kearny County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kearny County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Deerfield is a small city on the plains of western Kansas, home to a small population. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Kearny County run a little below the national picture. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and both rain and snow come in modest amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, with others in transport, warehousing and the building trades. Across Kearny County, some of the biggest workplaces are Kansas Dairy Development, Lakin Dairy and Kearny County Hospital. Getting to work is quick, and most people head out the door to a job rather than working from home.
Things to do. The closest places worth a trip are all a longer drive away. Lee Richardson Zoo is the best known of them, and Finney County Point of Rocks is a tourist attraction with a landscape of its own. Fort Aubrey is a historic fort for anyone interested in the region's past.
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- 15 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Kearny County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kearny County had 1,631 jobs in 2025, 4.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lakin weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kearny County
- Kansas Dairy DevelopmentCattle feedlots256
- Lakin DairyMilk production, dairy cattle124
- Kearny County HospitalCritical access hospital118FTE
- Lakin SchoolsSchool district85FTE
- Deerfield SchoolsSchool district48FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 610 people in all across the county; Deerfield 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery 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 Deerfield’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 Kearny County and the Garden City, KS metro.
Deerfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Deerfield$163,105
- 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 Deerfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Deerfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.