Galva, Kansas.
Typical home $271,067 (+4.1% in a year). McPherson, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,749 +4%
- $260,318$271,067 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,149 +26%
- $215,918$271,067 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.
- Galva$1,423
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Galva, KS rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Galva, McPherson County, Kansas
Galva is a city of 834 people in McPherson County. Half its households earn more than $91,167 a year and half less, against $78,851 across McPherson County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in McPherson County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Galva is a small city in McPherson County, Kansas, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a modest amount of snow, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Across McPherson County, some of the largest workplaces are Viega - McPherson, which makes pipe fittings, CHS, a petroleum refinery, and McPherson Schools. Commutes are short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the McPherson Opera House is a theatre and the McPherson Museum is a place to learn about local history. Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, also a short drive away, is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. Lake Inman is a longer drive away and offers time on the water.
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- 446households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McPherson County had 16,416 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 14 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcpherson weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McPherson County
- Viega - McPhersonFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe736
- CHSPetroleum refineries536
- McPherson SchoolsSchool district452FTE
- The Bradbury CoAssembly machines manufacturing370
- Johns ManvilleFiberglass insulation products manufacturing336
- Piping Technology CompanyPipeline, gas and oil, construction311
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters300
- Mcpherson HospitalGeneral hospital263FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,568 people in all across the county; Galva has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Galva’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 McPherson County and the McPherson, KS metro.
Galva home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Galva$271,067
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Galva address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Galva — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.