Denison, Kansas.
Typical home $165,804 (+7.7% in a year). Topeka, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$595 (+216%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,910 +8%
- $153,894$165,804 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,325 +51%
- $109,479$165,804 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.
- Denison$870
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Denison, KS rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denison, Jackson County, Kansas
Denison is a city of 146 people in Jackson County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denison is a very small city in Jackson County, in northeast Kansas, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Fewer households fall below the poverty line than is typical, and homes are valued at a modest level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and government also employing many. Across Jackson County, some of the biggest workplaces are Johnsonville, Holton Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has risen a little compared with a year earlier, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, a protected area a longer drive away that tells the story of the school desegregation case. For time outdoors, Perry Lake is a lake, also a longer drive away. The Topeka Zoo is another longer drive, and suits a day out with family or visiting grandchildren.
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- 4%below the poverty line
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 4,454 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Prairie Band Casino & Resort815
- JohnsonvilleAnimal slaughtering226
- Holton SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- TechsEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground155
- Royal Valley SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Holton Community HospitalCritical access hospital120FTE
- North Jackson SchoolsSchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,573 people in all across the county; Denison 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Denison’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 Jackson County and the Topeka, KS metro.
Denison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denison$165,804
- 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 Denison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.