Halstead, Kansas.
Typical home $209,932 (+5.7% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$622 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,263 +6%
- $198,669$209,932 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,307 +32%
- $159,625$209,932 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.
- Halstead$1,102
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Halstead, KS rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas
Halstead is a city of 2,179 people in Harvey County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Harvey County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halstead is a small city in Harvey County, Kansas, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Homes are priced well below what many buyers expect in larger cities, and incomes in the county are on the modest side of the middle. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and most people travel a fair way to work, with very few working from home. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and government also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Halstead are Halstead Schools, Continental, which makes belting and rubber goods, and Mill Creek Lumber and Supply, which makes floor trusses. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, Dyck Arboretum of the Plains is a botanical garden, and Fischer Field Stadium is a stadium for local games. A longer drive brings you to Wichita, where the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is one of the best known museums, and Sedgwick County Zoo offers a day among the animals. Botanica, The Wichita Gardens is a botanical garden for a quieter afternoon.
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- 896households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harvey County had 14,096 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 9 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Halstead
- Halstead SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- ContinentalBelting, rubber, manufacturing90
- Mill Creek Lumber and Supply - TrussFloor trusses, wood, manufacturing69
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 159 people in all. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Halstead’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 Harvey County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Halstead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halstead$209,932
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Halstead10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Halstead5
Zip codes with a Halstead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halstead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.