Eureka, Kansas.
Typical home $103,523 (+9.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$323 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,955 +9%
- $94,568$103,523 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,170 +41%
- $73,353$103,523 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.
- Eureka$543
- 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 Eureka, KS rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas
Eureka is a city of 2,332 people in Greenwood County. Half its households earn more than $48,828 a year and half less, against $60,042 across Greenwood County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Greenwood County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eureka is a small Kansas city and the seat of Greenwood County. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes in town run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, while few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in town are Eureka Schools, Greenwood County Hospital and Americare Senior Living. Jobs across the county have been slipping, and unemployment there is about where it was a year ago. Most people have a short drive to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Fort Montgomery, a fort in or beside town, is the closest place to visit. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Toronto Lake, a reservoir, and Fall River State Park, a protected area. Winters are cold with a little snow, and summers get hot, so the lakes and parks are best suited to the warmer months.
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- 940households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenwood County had 1,495 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eureka 1E weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eureka
- Eureka SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Greenwood County HospitalCritical access hospital90FTE
- Americare Senior LivingHealthcare50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 50 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eureka’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 Greenwood County.
Eureka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eureka$103,523
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Eureka 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.
- Eureka34.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eureka22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eureka6
Zip codes with a Eureka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eureka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Eureka
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67045 | Eureka | 3,406 | — | $104,251 |
| 66777 | Toronto | 473 | — | $98,810 |