Healy, Kansas.
Typical home $142,340 (+14.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$452 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,482 +14%
- $124,858$142,340 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,046 +38%
- $103,295$142,340 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.
- Healy$747
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Healy, KS rose 14.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Healy, Lane County, Kansas
Healy, in Lane County, had 195 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lane County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lane 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Healy is a very small community on the western Kansas plains, home to far fewer people than most towns. Households there are almost entirely above the poverty line, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow together arrive in modest amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, wholesale, and the building trades. Few people work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical nationally. Across Lane County, the largest workplaces include Lane County Feeders, Lane County Hospital and Dighton Schools, and the county has recently seen fewer jobs than the year before and somewhat higher unemployment.
Things to do. Several protected places and historic sites lie a longer drive away. Monument Rocks is a protected area, and Lake Scott State Park offers a state park setting. El Quartelejo Ruins is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Lane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lane County had 585 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Healy weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lane County
- Lane County FeedersBeef cattle feedlots66
- Lane County HospitalCritical access hospital48FTE
- Dighton SchoolsSchool district39FTE
- Sharp Bros SeedAgriculture production or harvesting crews32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 98 people in all across the county; Healy 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Healy’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 Lane County.
Healy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Healy$142,340
- 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 Healy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Healy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.