Dwight, Kansas.
Typical home $172,378 (+5.6% in a year). Manhattan, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$497 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,106 +6%
- $163,272$172,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,498 +23%
- $139,880$172,378 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.
- Dwight$905
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Dwight, KS rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dwight, Morris County, Kansas
Dwight is a city of 217 people in Morris County. Half its households earn more than $67,000 a year and half less, against $58,686 across Morris County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Morris County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morris County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dwight is a very small city in Morris County, Kansas, the kind of place where most people know one another. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with some snow each year and a fair amount of rain through the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, transport and warehouses, and professional and business services. Across Morris County, the largest workplaces include Morris County Schools, Morris County Hospital and U.S. Stone Industries. The typical commute is a long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lairds Creek and Wildcat Creek are both a short drive away, and are the closest places to get out along the water. A longer drive brings you to Council Grove Lake, a reservoir, and to Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a protected area of open prairie.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Morris County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 1,588 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 12 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Council Grove Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morris County
- Morris County SchoolsSchool district140FTE
- Morris County HospitalCritical access hospital123FTE
- U.S. Stone IndustriesDimension stone dressing and manufacturing111
- AlkegenRefractories, nonclay, manufacturing76
- Diversicare of Council GroveNursing homes55
- Rural Vista SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- Schwartz Farms-Flint Hills39
- Hodgdon Powder CompanyGunpowder manufacturing35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 342 people in all across the county; Dwight 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
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dwight’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 Morris County and the Manhattan, KS metro.
Dwight home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dwight$172,378
- 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 Dwight address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dwight — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.