Frontenac, Kansas.
Typical home $169,681 (-1.4% in a year). Pittsburg, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$513 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,341 -1%
- $172,022$169,681 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,356 +36%
- $124,324$169,681 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.
- Frontenac$891
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Frontenac, KS fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Frontenac, Crawford County, Kansas
Frontenac is a city of 3,382 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $58,733 a year and half less, against $52,844 across Crawford County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Crawford County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Frontenac is a small city in Crawford County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and typical home values sit at a level that many homeowners will find manageable. Winters are cold and summers turn hot, with a modest amount of snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, shops and other services close behind. Across Crawford County, some of the biggest employers are Pittsburg State University, VIA Christi Hospital Pittsburg and Sugar Creek Packing Co. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Prairie State Park, a protected area of preserved prairie, is a short drive away. Farther out, Fort Scott National Historic Site and Crawford State Park are both protected areas that make for a longer day trip. Several creeks lie within a longer drive as well.
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- 1,490households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 17,084 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 10 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pittsburg weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- Community Health Center of Southeast KansasCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient946
- Pittsburg State UniversityUniversity or college946
- Sugar Creek Packing CoBacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses596
- CDL Electric CompanyMaintenance of rights-of-way and structures, railway445
- Pittsburg SchoolsSchool district418FTE
- VIA Christi Hospital PittsburgGeneral hospital397FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters330
- Owens Corning Doors PittsburgDoor manufacturer241
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,122 people in all across the county; Frontenac has two 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Frontenac’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 Crawford County and the Pittsburg, KS metro.
Frontenac home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Frontenac$169,681
- 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.
- Frontenac13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Frontenac5
Zip codes with a Frontenac address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Frontenac — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.