Grinnell, Kansas.
Typical home $143,646 (+0.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$371 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $890 +1%
- $142,756$143,646 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,550 +10%
- $131,096$143,646 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.
- Grinnell$754
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Grinnell, KS rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grinnell, Gove County, Kansas
Grinnell is a city of 260 people in Gove County. Half its households earn more than $67,500 a year and half less, against $66,029 across Gove County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Gove County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gove 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grinnell is a very small city on the Kansas plains, with a population among the smallest of any town in the county. Almost everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run a little above the county's, with few residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers get hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, and then shops and other services. Across Gove County, the largest workplaces include Gove County Medical Center, Quinter Public Schools and Pioneer Feedyard. A small number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Grainfield Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Monument Rocks, a protected area, and Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park, another protected area, are each a longer drive away. Ladder Creek, a river, is also a longer drive.
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- 122households
- 3%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Gove County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gove County had 1,152 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 62°. About 26 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakley 4W weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gove County
- Gove County Medical CenterCritical access hospital104FTE
- Quinter Public SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- Pioneer FeedyardCombination livestock farming54
- Grinnell Public SchoolsSchool district22FTE
- Wheatland SchoolsSchool district22FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 54 people in all across the county; Grinnell has one 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Grinnell’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 Gove County.
Grinnell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grinnell$143,646
- 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.
Zip codes with a Grinnell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grinnell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.