Hudson, Kansas.
Typical home $200,704 (+12.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$673 (+177%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,223 +12%
- $178,480$200,704 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,169 +47%
- $136,535$200,704 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.
- Hudson$1,053
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Hudson, KS rose 12.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hudson, Stafford County, Kansas
Hudson is a city of 95 people in Stafford County. Unemployment in Stafford County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stafford County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hudson is a very small city in Stafford County, Kansas, in the central part of the country. Winters are cold and bring a fair amount of snow, while summers are hot and the year brings a fair amount of rain. Daily life follows the seasons closely, with long hot stretches and cold snaps.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining. Others work in shops or in the building trades. Few people here work from home, so most jobs are done away from the house.
Things to do. Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away and is a good choice for a day outdoors. Further off, the Pawnee River offers a river setting, and the Great Bend Zoo is a zoo a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Stafford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stafford County had 1,213 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 68°. About 18 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hudson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stafford County
- Stafford SchoolsSchool district73FTE
- St John-Hudson SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Macksville SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Stafford County Flour MillsWheat flour manufacturing42
- Leisure Homestead at StaffordNursing homes40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82 people in all across the county; Hudson has one of its own. 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hudson’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 Stafford County.
Hudson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hudson$200,704
- 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 Hudson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hudson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.