Eudora, Kansas.
Typical home $339,595 (+5.0% in a year), asking rent $1,272 . Lawrence, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,019 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,051 +5%
- $323,544$339,595 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,488 +31%
- $260,107$339,595 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.
- Eudora$1,782
- 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 Eudora, KS rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eudora, Douglas County, Kansas
Eudora is a city of 6,408 people in Douglas County. Half its households earn more than $118,184 a year and half less, against $69,746 across Douglas County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Douglas County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eudora is a small city in Douglas County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run well above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest; the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Eudora include Eudora Schools, Medicalodges Eudora and J K Williams Home Office. Commutes are fairly short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Wakarusa River runs in or beside town, a natural place for a walk or a look at the water. A short drive away are the Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, and the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, a protected area, is close by as well.
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- 2,283households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 50,796 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 67°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lawrence Municipal Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eudora
- Eudora SchoolsSchool district209FTE
- Medicalodges EudoraSkilled nursing facilities46
- J K Williams Home OfficeTrucking, general freight, local35
- Air Filter PlusHeating and ventilation system component installation29
- Legacy Wendy'sCarryout restaurants23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 133 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eudora’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 Douglas County and the Lawrence, KS metro.
Eudora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eudora$339,595
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Eudora listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Eudora25.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eudora26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eudora12
Zip codes with a Eudora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eudora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.