Herington, Kansas.
Typical home $77,852 (-10.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$177 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,770 -10%
- $86,623$77,852 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $500 -1%
- $78,352$77,852 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.
- Herington$409
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Herington, KS fell 10.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Herington, Morris County, Kansas
Herington is a city of 2,109 people in Morris County. Half its households earn more than $70,574 a year and half less, against $58,686 across Morris County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Morris County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Herington is a small city in Morris County, Kansas, with a population that is modest by any measure. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and typical home values are low, so the place suits people who want to own a house without a large outlay. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Schools and hospitals and social care employ the most residents, followed by manufacturing, then transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Herington are U.S. Stone Industries, which dresses and manufactures dimension stone, Herington Schools, and Hodgdon Powder Company, a gunpowder maker. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and almost no one works from home, so the typical commute is a real drive rather than a short hop.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, a museum a longer drive away. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a protected area also a longer drive away, is another option for time outdoors. Closer to town, Fourmile Creek is a short drive away.
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- 979households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 1,588 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 13 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Herington weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Herington
- U.S. Stone IndustriesDimension stone dressing and manufacturing111
- Herington SchoolsSchool district69FTE
- Hodgdon Powder CompanyGunpowder manufacturing35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 146 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Herington’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 Morris County.
Herington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Herington$77,852
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Herington listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Herington32.78%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Herington16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Herington6
Zip codes with a Herington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Herington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.