Everest, Kansas.
Typical home $173,385 (+10.5% in a year). Atchison, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$605 (+198%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,430 +10%
- $156,955$173,385 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,176 +52%
- $114,209$173,385 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.
- Everest$910
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Everest, KS rose 10.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Everest, Brown County, Kansas
Everest is a city of 265 people in Brown County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Brown County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brown 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Everest is a very small Kansas city in Brown County, home to few people and a quiet place to live. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs well under what many Americans pay. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall at a fairly steady rate through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Brown County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Hiawatha Community Hospital and Koch and Co, which makes cabinets. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has crept up over the past year, and there are somewhat fewer jobs there than a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lewis and Clark State Park is a protected area and Brown State Fishing Lake is a lake, both a longer drive away. The Delaware River, also a longer drive away, is another option for time by the water. Itha T. Krumme Memorial Arboretum, a botanical garden, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 134households
- 19 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Brown County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brown County had 4,325 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Horton weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brown County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
- Hiawatha Community HospitalCritical access hospital161FTE
- Koch and CoCabinets, wood, manufacturing147
- Hiawatha SchoolsSchool district125FTE
- Crosswind Petfoods124
- Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 15 Commerce DrFood choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers manufacturing99
- Fairview ExpressGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload89
- South Brown County SchoolsSchool district83FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,098 people in all across the county; Everest has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Everest’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 Brown County and the Atchison, KS metro.
Everest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Everest$173,385
- 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 Everest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Everest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Everest
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66532 | Robinson | 527 | — | $182,839 |
| 66424 | Everest | 486 | — | $184,668 |