Humboldt, Kansas.
Typical home $126,056 (+9.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$403 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,953 +10%
- $115,104$126,056 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,765 +32%
- $95,291$126,056 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.
- Humboldt$662
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Humboldt, KS rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas
Humboldt is a city of 1,847 people in Allen County. Half its households earn more than $47,560 a year and half less, against $60,689 across Allen County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Allen County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Humboldt is a small city in Allen County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit at a modest level. Incomes run below the county's, and more households than you might expect live under the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country, and most people have a short drive to work.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Allen County, some of the largest workplaces are B&W Trailer Hitches, Russell Stover Chocolates in Iola, and Allen County Regional Hospital. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Close to town, Vegetarian Creek is a river a short drive away, and Iola's Fort is a fort a short drive away. For a longer drive, Toronto Lake is a reservoir, and Cross Timbers State Park is a protected area. Winters are cold and somewhat snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls fairly evenly through the year.
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- 738households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 5,650 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 9 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Humboldt weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen County
- B&W Trailer HitchesTrailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing511
- Russell Stover Chocolates LLC IolaCandy manufacturing360
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters205
- Allen County Community CollegeTwo-year college187
- Iola SchoolsSchool district180FTE
- Allen County Regional HospitalCritical access hospital121FTE
- Humboldt SchoolsSchool district92FTE
- Medicalodges IolaSkilled nursing facilities57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,416 people in all across the county; Humboldt has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Humboldt’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 Allen County.
Humboldt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Humboldt$126,056
- 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.
- Humboldt13
Zip codes with a Humboldt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Humboldt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.