Garden Plain, Kansas.
Typical home $321,769 (+4.0% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$914 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,421 +4%
- $309,347$321,769 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,226 +28%
- $250,543$321,769 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.
- Garden Plain$1,689
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Garden Plain, KS rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Garden Plain, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Garden Plain is a city of 948 people in Sedgwick County. Half its households earn more than $85,455 a year and half less, against $69,365 across Sedgwick County. Unemployment in Sedgwick County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garden Plain is a small city on the Kansas plains west of Wichita, home to a small community of residents. Household incomes here run above the county's, and the typical home is valued at a level that reflects that. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up across the year to a moderate amount.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in manufacturing, shops and other services. Across Sedgwick County, some of the largest workplaces are Spirit AeroSystems, Textron Aviation and Wichita State University, and the county's job count grew slightly last year. A fair number of adults hold a four-year degree, and most people commute to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Afton, a reservoir, and the Ninnescah River are both a short drive away, as is Tanganyika Wildlife Park, a zoo. A longer drive brings you into Wichita, where the Wichita Art Museum and the Sedgwick County Zoo are among the better known places to visit.
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- 354households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sedgwick County had 265,869 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wichita Wx weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedgwick County
- Spirit AeroSystemsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing11,669
- Wichita SchoolsSchool district7,727FTE
- Textron Aviation - Mid-ContinentAircraft manufacturing5,249
- Wichita State UniversityUniversity or college3,108
- VIA Christi Hospital WichitaGeneral hospital2,496FTE
- Textron Aviation - East CampusAircraft manufacturing2,253
- Wesley Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,181FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,518
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 529 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,668 people in all across the county; Garden Plain has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garden Plain’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 Sedgwick County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Garden Plain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Garden Plain$321,769
- 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.
- Garden Plain8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Garden Plain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garden Plain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.