Douglass, Kansas.
Typical home $235,673 (+4.5% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$689 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,209 +5%
- $225,464$235,673 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,901 +30%
- $181,772$235,673 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.
- Douglass$1,237
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Douglass, KS rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Douglass, Butler County, Kansas
Douglass is a city of 1,555 people in Butler County. Half its households earn more than $72,589 a year and half less, against $81,610 across Butler County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Douglass is a small Kansas city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of owners is higher than in many places. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit at a moderate level for the area. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn properly hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Across Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Butler Community College, Andover Schools and HF Sinclair's El Dorado refinery. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The Whitewater River is a short drive away for time by the water. A longer drive brings you into the Wichita area, where the Sedgwick County Zoo and the Wichita Art Museum are among the best known places to visit. The Kansas Aviation Museum is also a longer drive away, for anyone with an interest in flying.
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- 645households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 19,973 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 11 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smileyberg 1N weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Butler Community CollegeTwo-year college683
- Andover SchoolsSchool district612FTE
- HF Sinclair, El Dorado RefiningPetroleum refineries486
- Kansas Medical CenterGeneral hospital297FTE
- Circle SchoolsSchool district292FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters242
- Augusta SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- El Dorado SchoolsSchool district235FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,932 people in all across the county; Douglass has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Douglass’ 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 Butler County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Douglass home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Douglass$235,673
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Douglass10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Douglass address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Douglass — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.