Haviland, Kansas.
Typical home $135,894 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$380 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $958 +1%
- $134,936$135,894 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,674 +17%
- $116,220$135,894 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.
- Haviland$713
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Haviland, KS rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Haviland, Kiowa County, Kansas
Haviland is a city of 678 people in Kiowa County. Unemployment in Kiowa County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kiowa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Haviland is a small city on the Kansas plains, in Kiowa County, where neighbors tend to know one another. The population is young for a farming area, with a median age below what is common across much of the country. Homes here are modestly priced, and a smaller share of people live in poverty than in many places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, with others in shops and in transport and warehousing. Across Kiowa County, some of the largest workplaces are Barclay College, Kiowa County Memorial Hospital and Kiowa County Schools. Unemployment in the county has risen slightly over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below it, and some snow falls each year. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and moisture arrives as rain and melted snow spread through the year. No nearby places are listed for Haviland, so the town itself, its college and its quiet plains setting are the main draws for a visit.
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- 170households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Kiowa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kiowa County had 1,079 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greensburg weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kiowa County
- Barclay CollegeUniversity or college71
- Kiowa County Memorial HosptialCritical access hospital57FTE
- Kiowa County SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Haviland Care CenterNursing homes34
- BTIPlanting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers26
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 185 people in all across the county; Haviland has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- DroughtVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Haviland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Kiowa County.
Haviland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Haviland$135,894
- 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 Haviland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Haviland — 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.