Edna, Kansas.
Typical home $158,284 (+9.2% in a year). Parsons, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$450 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,301 +9%
- $144,983$158,284 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,445 +21%
- $130,839$158,284 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.
- Edna$831
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Edna, KS rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edna, Labette County, Kansas
Edna is a city of 388 people in Labette County. Unemployment in Labette County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Labette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edna is a very small city in Labette County, in southeastern Kansas. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the county run on the lower side. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Labette County, some of the largest workplaces are Labette County Medical Center, Ducommun Aerostructures and Ruskin Company. Job numbers across the county slipped slightly last year, and the commute is on the long side, which is typical of a small town where few people work from home.
Things to do. Water and green space are the main draw nearby. Elk City Lake and Elk City State Park, a reservoir and protected area, are a longer drive away, as is Lake Parsons, another reservoir. Parsons Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Labette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Labette County had 8,501 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mound Valley Wsw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Labette County
- Labette County Medical CenterGeneral hospital481FTE
- Ducommun AerostructuresOther aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing314
- Ruskin CompanyHampers, laundry, sheet metal, manufacturing302
- Tank ConnectionTanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing265
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters235
- Parsons SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- Labette County SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- Labette Community CollegeTwo-year college188
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,978 people in all across the county; Edna has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Edna’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 Labette County and the Parsons, KS metro.
Edna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edna$158,284
- 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 Edna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.