Holyrood, Kansas.
Typical home $81,850 (+7.9% in a year). Great Bend, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$276 (+179%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,962 +8%
- $75,887$81,850 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,100 +58%
- $51,750$81,850 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.
- Holyrood$430
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Holyrood, KS rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holyrood, Ellsworth County, Kansas
Holyrood is a city of 403 people in Ellsworth County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Ellsworth County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 5.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ellsworth 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holyrood is a very small city in Ellsworth County, Kansas, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are well below what many buyers elsewhere would expect, and more residents live below the poverty line than is true in many places. Winters are cold, with January highs staying near freezing and lows well below it, and some snow falls each year. Summers turn hot, especially in July, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents of Holyrood work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and government. Across Ellsworth County, some of the largest workplaces are Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth, which makes farm seeders, along with Cashco, a maker of industrial safety valves, and Ellsworth County Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has stayed low, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Few residents work from home, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Kanopolis State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Kanopolis Lake, a reservoir, sits in the same direction. Fort Harker, also a longer drive away, is a historic fort for anyone interested in the region's past. Wilson Lake, another reservoir a longer drive away, rounds out the choices for water and open country.
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- 184households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Ellsworth County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ellsworth County had 2,291 jobs in 2025, 5.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ellsworth weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ellsworth County
- Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - EllsworthSeeders, farm-type, manufacturing122
- CashcoSafety valves, industrial-type, manufacturing118
- Ellsworth County Medical CenterCritical access hospital114FTE
- Ellsworth SchoolsSchool district86FTE
- Moly ManufacturingAngle irons, metal, manufacturing52
- Wilson OperatorSkilled nursing facilities47
- MaiCo IndustriesBoiler tubes, wrought, made from purchased iron44
- Carrico Implement Company, Inc. EllsworthTractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 564 people in all across the county; Holyrood has none 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holyrood’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 Ellsworth County and the Great Bend, KS metro.
Holyrood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holyrood$81,850
- 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 Holyrood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holyrood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.