Florence, Kansas.
Typical home $62,395 (+7.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$166 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,533 +8%
- $57,863$62,395 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,050 +24%
- $50,346$62,395 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.
- Florence$327
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Florence, KS rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Florence, Marion County, Kansas
Florence is a city of 394 people in Marion County. Unemployment in Marion County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Florence is a very small city in Marion County, Kansas, the kind of town where people tend to know one another. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the county run below those in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. People in Florence work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming also common. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Barkman Honey, Tabor College and the Mennonite Bethesda Society. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Close to town, Marion County Lake is a reservoir a short drive away, and Cedar Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a protected area of open grassland, and to Dyck Arboretum of the Plains, a botanical garden.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 3,639 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Florence weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Barkman HoneyHoney processing147
- Tabor CollegeUniversity or college135
- Mennonite Bethesda SocietyContinuing care retirement communities92
- Marion-Florence SchoolsSchool district86FTE
- Parkside HomesSkilled nursing facilities82
- Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh SchoolsSchool district80FTE
- Hillsboro IndustriesTruck trailer manufacturing77
- St. Luke HospitalCritical access hospital76FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 893 people in all across the county; Florence has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Florence’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 Marion County.
Florence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Florence$62,395
- 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 Florence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Florence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.