Holcomb, Kansas.
Typical home $234,575 (-2.1% in a year). Garden City, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$588 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,997 -2%
- $239,572$234,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,422 +14%
- $206,152$234,575 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.
- Holcomb$1,231
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Holcomb, KS fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holcomb, Finney County, Kansas
Holcomb is a city of 2,245 people in Finney County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Finney County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holcomb is a small city in Finney County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Typical home values sit at a modest level, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Commutes are short, and only a few people work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport, warehouses and utilities, and other services close behind. Across Finney County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Fresh Meats, Garden City Schools and St. Catherine hospital in Garden City. Unemployment across the county is slightly higher than a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Lee Richardson Zoo is a short drive away and makes an easy outing. Finney County Point of Rocks, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, so the seasons shape how people spend their time outdoors.
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- 702households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Finney County had 20,620 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 65°. About 16 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Garden City Experiment Station weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Finney County
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering3,795
- Garden City SchoolsSchool district1,260FTE
- St. Catherine - Garden CityGeneral hospital349FTE
- Garden City Community CollegeTwo-year college325
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- Fortrex - 0404 Tyson Foods Inc. - Garden CityJanitorial services153
- Holcomb SchoolsSchool district144FTE
- Sunflower Electric PowerPower generation, fossil fuel, electric142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,536 people in all across the county; Holcomb has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holcomb’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 Finney County and the Garden City, KS metro.
Holcomb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holcomb$234,575
- 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.
- Holcomb8
Zip codes with a Holcomb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holcomb — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.