Hoyt, Kansas.
Typical home $294,435 (+5.6% in a year). Topeka, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,003 (+185%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,746 +6%
- $278,689$294,435 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,237 +41%
- $209,198$294,435 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.
- Hoyt$1,545
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Hoyt, KS rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hoyt, Jackson County, Kansas
Hoyt is a city of 593 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $71,364 a year and half less, against $75,215 across Jackson County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hoyt is a very small Kansas city, home to far fewer people than most towns on the map. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit at a level that is close to what many homeowners would expect to pay for a house of this size in the region. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many people. Across Jackson County, some of the biggest workplaces are Prairie Band Casino & Resort, Johnsonville and Holton Schools. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with only a small group working from home.
Things to do. The closest of the listed spots is Shawnee State Fishing Lake, a reservoir a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Perry Lake, a lake, and to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, a protected area tied to the nation's civil rights history. The Topeka Zoo is also within a longer drive.
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- 394households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 4,454 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 14 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Valley Falls Southwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Prairie Band Casino & Resort815
- JohnsonvilleAnimal slaughtering226
- Holton SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- TechsEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground155
- Royal Valley SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Holton Community HospitalCritical access hospital120FTE
- North Jackson SchoolsSchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,573 people in all across the county; Hoyt has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hoyt’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 Jackson County and the Topeka, KS metro.
Hoyt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hoyt$294,435
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hoyt7
Zip codes with a Hoyt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hoyt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.