Dighton, Kansas.
Typical home $110,642 (+10.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$350 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,874 +11%
- $99,768$110,642 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,175 +39%
- $79,467$110,642 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.
- Dighton$581
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Dighton, KS rose 10.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dighton, Lane County, Kansas
Dighton is a city of 960 people in Lane County. Half its households earn more than $51,932 a year and half less, against $54,526 across Lane County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Lane County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lane 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dighton is a small city in western Kansas, with a population that skews older than much of the country. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and homes cost far less than in most parts of the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and winters are cold, with snow that comes and goes through the season, while summers turn hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, with others in wholesale and the building trades. Across Lane County, some of the biggest employers are Lane County Feeders, Lane County Hospital and Dighton Schools. Unemployment in the county has edged up from a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Monument Rocks is a protected area a longer drive away, known for its striking chalk formations. Lake Scott State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area suited to a day outdoors. The El Quartelejo Ruins, an archaeological site a longer drive away, offer a look at the region's past.
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- 392households
- 9%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Lane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lane County had 585 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Healy weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lane County
- Lane County FeedersBeef cattle feedlots66
- Lane County HospitalCritical access hospital48FTE
- Dighton SchoolsSchool district39FTE
- Sharp Bros SeedAgriculture production or harvesting crews32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 98 people in all across the county; Dighton has two 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Dighton’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 Lane County.
Dighton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dighton$110,642
- 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.
- Dighton6
Zip codes with a Dighton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dighton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.