Fowler, Kansas.
Typical home $107,903 (-0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$305 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $379 -0%
- $108,281$107,903 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,068 +16%
- $92,834$107,903 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.
- Fowler$566
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Fowler, KS fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fowler, Meade County, Kansas
Fowler is a city of 534 people in Meade County. Unemployment in Meade County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Meade County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fowler is a very small city on the Kansas plains, the kind of town where people tend to know one another. Incomes across Meade County run a little above the typical American household's, while homes in town are priced modestly. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get quite hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities or in shops. Across Meade County, the largest workplaces include Meade District Hospital, Meade Schools and JKL Construction. The trip to work is fairly short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Meade State Park is a protected area with a lake, a longer drive away. The Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum, one of the better-known stops in the region, is also a longer drive away, as is Fort Dodge, a historic fort. Those who enjoy open grassland can head to Big Basin Prairie Preserve, another protected area a longer drive off.
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- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Meade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meade County had 1,624 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meade weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Meade County
- JKL ConstructionConcrete pouring150
- Meade District HospitalCritical access hospital81FTE
- Meade SchoolsSchool district68FTE
- Lone Tree Retirement CenterNursing homes51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 290 people in all across the county; Fowler 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Fowler’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 Meade County.
Fowler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fowler$107,903
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fowler5
Zip codes with a Fowler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fowler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.