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Garfield, Kansas.

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What it costs per month · Garfield $1,291/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$717 (+125%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Kansas $1,291 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Kansas$1,291
  • United States$1,922

Living in Garfield, Pawnee County, Kansas

Garfield is a city of 151 people in Pawnee County. Unemployment in Pawnee County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pawnee County work in schools and health care, then farming.

People 151 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Garfield for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.9% Pawnee County, August 2026; 3.6% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Garfield for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garfield is a very small city on the plains of central Kansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July. The year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow, which suits the farming country around it.

Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and a good number work in farming, with others in transport, warehouses and manufacturing. Across Pawnee County, some of the largest workplaces are Larned State Hospital, the Ft Larned Schools district and Pawnee Valley Community Hospital. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.

Things to do. Fort Larned National Historic Site is a protected area a short drive away, and Camp on Pawnee Fork, also a short drive away, was a fort on the same stretch of frontier. The Pawnee River is a longer drive away and is a pleasant place to spend a day outdoors.

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  • 6%below the poverty line
  • 17 mintypical commute
  • 3%work from home

What people in Pawnee County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care26%
  • Farming, forestry and mining14%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities8%
  • Manufacturing8%
  • Government8%
  • Shops (retail)7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pawnee County had 2,590 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 44° and 21°; warmest in July, 91° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 44° 21° F M A M J J 91° 67° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 44° and 21°; warmest in July, 91° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 44° 21° F M A M J J 91° 67° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 67°. About 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Larned weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Pawnee County

  1. Larned State HospitalPsychiatric hospital912FTE
  2. Ft Larned SchoolsSchool district168FTE
  3. Pawnee Valley Community HospitalCritical access hospital98FTE
  4. Innovative Livestock ServicesBeef cattle feedlots68
  5. Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores52
  6. Diversicare of LarnedSkilled nursing facilities50
  7. Pawnee Heights SchoolsSchool district33FTE
  8. Sodexo at Larned State Hospital FoodFood service contractors33

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 345 people in all across the county; Garfield 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

  1. HailVery high
  2. Strong windVery high
  3. TornadoesVery high
  4. DroughtRelatively high
  5. Cold wavesRelatively high
  6. Ice stormsRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garfield’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 Pawnee County.

Garfield home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Garfield address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.