Hesston, Kansas.
Typical home $245,391 (+3.8% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$689 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,879 +4%
- $236,513$245,391 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,739 +30%
- $188,653$245,391 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.
- Hesston$1,288
- 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 Hesston, KS rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hesston, Harvey County, Kansas
Hesston is a city of 3,505 people in Harvey County. Half its households earn more than $75,225 a year and half less, against $74,368 across Harvey County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Harvey County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hesston is a small Kansas city in Harvey County, home to a good number of people with a four-year degree. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than one might expect of a farm-country town. Winters are cold, with only a modest amount of snow, and summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and retail close behind. Some of the town's largest workplaces are AGCO's Hesston plant, which makes farm tractors and attachments, Hesston College, and Hesston Schools. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Dyck Arboretum of the Plains, a botanical garden in or beside town, is the easiest outing. A short drive away are Thresher Stadium and Fischer Field Stadium for local games. For a longer day out, the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a museum, and the Sedgwick County Zoo is a zoo, both a longer drive away.
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- 1,525households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Harvey County 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hesston
- AGCO : HesstonFarm tractors and attachments manufacturing880
- Stanley Black and DeckerGrass mowing equipment, powered lawn and garden, manufacturing550
- Bluestem Communities ManagementContinuing care retirement communities341
- Hesston CollegeUniversity or college138
- Hesston SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- Midwest Electrical Transformer ServicesTransformers, electric power, manufacturing48
- BMG of KansasAngle irons, metal, manufacturing41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,860 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hesston’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 Harvey County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Hesston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hesston$245,391
- 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.
- Hesston10
Zip codes with a Hesston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hesston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.