Hanover, Kansas.
Typical home $173,779 (+0.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$503 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $682 +0%
- $173,098$173,779 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,125 +34%
- $129,654$173,779 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.
- Hanover$912
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Hanover, KS rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hanover, Washington County, Kansas
Hanover is a city of 690 people in Washington County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hanover is a very small city in Washington County, Kansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Residents are younger than in many small towns, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in, with very few renters. Homes cost less than the national typical, and a short drive is all most people need to get anywhere in town.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Barnes Schools, Bradford Built, which makes truck bodies and cabs, and Linn Post & Pipe, which makes cattle feeding and watering equipment. Some residents work from home, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Homestead National Historical Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and tells the story of homesteading on the plains. Alcove Springs, a waterfall, is also a longer drive away. The Little Blue River, the best known of the nearby waterways, is likewise a longer drive from town. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers get hot, so spring and fall are easy seasons to be outdoors.
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- 321households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 2,024 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 14 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Barnes SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Bradford BuiltTruck bodies and cabs manufacturing66
- Linn Post & PipeCattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing57
- Washington Co. SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Titan WestCattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing49
- Hanover HospitalCritical access hospital47FTE
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital45FTE
- Keesecker Agri BusinessFarrow-to-finish operations26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 291 people in all across the county; Hanover has one 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hanover’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 Washington County.
Hanover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hanover$173,779
- 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 Hanover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hanover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.