Ingalls, Kansas.
Typical home $284,057 (+6.7% in a year). Garden City, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$862 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,959 +7%
- $266,098$284,057 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,152 +39%
- $203,905$284,057 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.
- Ingalls$1,491
- 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 Ingalls, KS rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ingalls, Gray County, Kansas
Ingalls is a city of 252 people in Gray County. Half its households earn more than $83,750 a year and half less, against $79,122 across Gray County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Gray County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gray County work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ingalls is a very small farming town in western Kansas, where nearly everyone knows one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with a modest amount of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, while others work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, or professional and business services. Across Gray County, some of the largest workplaces are Bethel Home, a skilled nursing facility, Cimarron-Ensign Schools, and Spandet Dairy. Unemployment in the county is low and has changed little from a year earlier, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Fort Dodge is a historic fort a longer drive away. Boot Hill Museum is a museum, also a longer drive away, and Lee Richardson Zoo is a zoo within the same longer-drive range. Each makes a good trip for anyone interested in the history and wildlife of western Kansas.
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- 1%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Gray County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gray County had 3,041 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 67°. About 17 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cimarron weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gray County
- Mjec,llcBackfilling, construction248
- Bethel HomeSkilled nursing facilities126
- Davis ElectricElectrical contractors95
- Cimarron-Ensign SchoolsSchool district91FTE
- Spandet DairyMilk production, dairy cattle86
- Midwest FeedersBeef cattle feedlots81
- Royal Farms DairyDairy cattle farming76
- Montezuma SchoolsSchool district42FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 780 people in all across the county; Ingalls has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Ingalls’ 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 Gray County and the Garden City, KS metro.
Ingalls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ingalls$284,057
- 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 Ingalls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ingalls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.